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Bill Moggridge, Designer of the First Laptop, on Human-Centered Design
Bill Moggridge, Designer of the First Laptop, on Human-Centered Design

“It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed — that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed.”

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Design in a Nutshell: One-Minute Animated Primers on Six Major Creative Movements
Design in a Nutshell: One-Minute Animated Primers on Six Major Creative Movements

From Gothic Revival to Postmodernism, or how Bauhaus ushered in the age of minimalism.

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The Designer Says: The Collected Quips and Wisdom of Famous Graphic Designers
The Designer Says: The Collected Quips and Wisdom of Famous Graphic Designers

“Everything hangs on something else.”

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Iconic Designer Henry Dreyfuss on Beauty, Serenity, and Shaping Public Taste
Iconic Designer Henry Dreyfuss on Beauty, Serenity, and Shaping Public Taste

“Man achieves his tallest measure of serenity when surrounded by beauty.”

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How China’s First Emperor Pioneered Design Thinking and Revolutionized the Branding of Legacy
How China’s First Emperor Pioneered Design Thinking and Revolutionized the Branding of Legacy

How to standardize, enforce accountability, and employ design thinking in coining your image and legacy.

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If the Web Preceded Print: The New Golden Age of Book Design and Creativity on Paper
If the Web Preceded Print: The New Golden Age of Book Design and Creativity on Paper

“This is an important and wonderful time to be a writer, a storyteller, a designer, a reader.”

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Make Good Art: Neil Gaiman’s Advice on the Creative Life, Adapted by Design Legend Chip Kidd
Make Good Art: Neil Gaiman’s Advice on the Creative Life, Adapted by Design Legend Chip Kidd

“Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before.”

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Massimo Vignelli on the Secret of Great Book Design
Massimo Vignelli on the Secret of Great Book Design

“The grid is the underwear of the book.”

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A Design History of Childhood
A Design History of Childhood

“Children help us to mediate between the ideal and the real.”

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Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich on Art vs. Design and the Joy of Losing Yourself in Purposeful Work
Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich on Art vs. Design and the Joy of Losing Yourself in Purposeful Work

“Art pushes the limit of human experience and language for its own sake, while Design might do this but only to humanize and integrate people’s lives in the context of an economy.”

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