Reads tagged with “design”

Gorgeous Vintage Japanese Illustrations of Animals and Scientific Phenomena
A vibrant minimalist celebration of nature, from the scale of cells and atoms to the scale of elephants and the Moon.

Visionary Maps of Time, Space, and Thought by America’s First Female Cartographer and Information Visualization Designer
Revolutions in design and education technology, underpinned by the conviction that women “are an essential part of the body politic, whose corruption or improvement must affect the whole.”

This Book Is a Planetarium: A Pop-Up Masterpiece Translating the Laws of Physics into Playful and Poetic Tangibility
From light to time, magical hands-on demonstrations making concretely comprehensible the abstract forces and phenomena we experience but cannot ordinarily touch.

W.E.B. Du Bois’s Little-Known, Arresting Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life for the World’s Fair of 1900
A trailblazing effort “to give, in as systematic and compact a form as possible, the history and present condition of a large group of human beings.”

The Creative Architect: Inside Psychology’s Most Ambitious and Influential Study of What Makes a Creative Person
“The creative person has the courage to experience opposites of his nature and to attempt some reconciliation of them in an individuated expression of himself.”

Poetic Symbology of the Heroine’s Journey: Artist Nancy Castille’s Stunning Homage to the Sumerian Proto-Feminist Goddess Inanna
5,000-year-old poems celebrating female sexuality and empowerment, reimagined in a new symbolic language at the nexus of beauty, wonder, and wisdom.

The Original Manifesto for Information Visualization and Pictorial Statistics: ISOTYPE Creator Otto Neurath’s Pioneering 1930 Visual Language
“Words divide, pictures unite!”

Meet Cipe Pineles: The Remarkable Life and Illustrated Recipes of the Forgotten Pioneer Who Blazed the Way for Women in Design and Publishing
A labor of love four years in the making, celebrating a trailblazing woman who shattered multiple glass ceilings.

Literary Constellations: Astronomy-Inspired Visualizations of the Opening Sentences of Beloved Books
From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to The Time Machine, data art meets literature.

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