The Marginalian
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Reads tagged with “design”

Gift Guide Part One: Books
Gift Guide Part One: Books

How to be a cool and cultured polyglot of a friend and friend of the polyglot.

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We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion
We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion

Four years and 12 million feelings later, a book that lives up to its grand expectations.

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Alphabet Books Rethought
Alphabet Books Rethought

Contortionists, negative space, and what Claymation has to do with the Kama Sutra.

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Tim Burton’s MoMA Retrospective
Tim Burton’s MoMA Retrospective

What rotten eyeballs have to do with creative storytelling and the visual heritage of our era.

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Ed Emberley’s Make a World: The Film
Ed Emberley’s Make a World: The Film

What alligators from 1972 have to do with the visual culture of modern design.

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Top 10 Contemporary Cross-Disciplinary Conferences
Top 10 Contemporary Cross-Disciplinary Conferences

Ideas in real life, or how to increase the statistical probability of finding a clown, Malcolm Gladwell, and a rocket scientist in the same room.

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The History of Jazz, Animated in Shadow Art
The History of Jazz, Animated in Shadow Art

What five rooms and bleeding-edge software have to do with the cultural heritage of music.

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Interview with Illustrator Christina Tsevis
Interview with Illustrator Christina Tsevis

What Coldplay, Oscar Wilde and Plato have in common and why the commodification of art may be a good thing.

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Nonsequential Narratives: Hypertextual Books
Nonsequential Narratives: Hypertextual Books

What your weapon of choice has to do with the evolution of storytelling.

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A Metaphor for Creativity: 5 Shapes, 3520 Artworks
A Metaphor for Creativity: 5 Shapes, 3520 Artworks

Why ideas are like pieces of leather and what sneakers have to do with your capacity for creativity.

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