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Notations 21: Musicians Visualize Sheet Music in Imaginative Ways Inspired by John Cage
Notations 21: Musicians Visualize Sheet Music in Imaginative Ways Inspired by John Cage

What the color wheel has to do with Beethoven and supporting arts education.

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6 Popular Business Books Adapted as Comics
6 Popular Business Books Adapted as Comics

What 6th-century Chinese military strategy has to do with the art of closing a deal.

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Tony Orrico: The Human Spirograph
Tony Orrico: The Human Spirograph

Mock-mathematics, or how to turn the human body into a graceful precision instrument.

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The Ancient Book of Myth and War
The Ancient Book of Myth and War

What Roman warriors have to do with Pixar and medieval Middle-Eastern legends.

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Viliam: Slovakian Short Film about Happiness & Delusion
Viliam: Slovakian Short Film about Happiness & Delusion

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Mapping the Human Condition
Mapping the Human Condition

What the empire of love has to do with the intellect forest and the bay of agoraphobia.

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David Clemesha’s Hand-Lettered Nursery Rhymes
David Clemesha’s Hand-Lettered Nursery Rhymes

Little lambs, little reds, little pigs, and a little hand-lettered typography.

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Everything Is Going To Be OK: Aesthetic Anesthesia for the Soul
Everything Is Going To Be OK: Aesthetic Anesthesia for the Soul

An antidote to cynicism by way of typography, or what it’s all right to have everything you want.

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5 (More) Children’s Books for Grown-Ups
5 (More) Children’s Books for Grown-Ups

What escaping boredom has to do with altruism theory and the Egyptian revolution.

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Noma Bar’s Negative Space Illustrations
Noma Bar’s Negative Space Illustrations

What hippies have to do with Wall Street, Iraq and the Little Red Riding Hood.

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