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December 2011

  1. Marshall McLuhan on New Forms and Old Assumptions (1960)
  2. PBS Off Book: The Magic of Book Art and Papercraft in 5 Minutes
  3. Forgotten Bookmarks: The Secret Life of Second-Hand Books
  4. Maurice Sendak on Passion, the Risk of Art, and Never Having Written for Children
  5. Advice on Writing from Modernity’s Greatest Writers
  6. Iconic Playwright Harold Pinter on Truth in Drama (and in Life)
  7. Grierson: A Documentary About the Filmmaker Who Coined “Documentary”
  8. Fashioning Apollo: How the Spacesuit Was Designed
  9. The Voyagers: A Short Film About How Carl Sagan Fell in Love
  10. How to Keep Your Hoping-Machine Running: 29-Year-Old Woody Guthrie’s List of Life-Resolutions
  11. The 11 Best Biographies and Memoirs of 2011
  12. Francis Ford Coppola Predicts YouTube in 1991
  13. The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossoms
  14. An Illustrated Visualization of What Happens on Earth in a Single Second
  15. Max Fleischer’s Original 1947 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Animation
  16. Umberto Eco on Lists and Making Infinity Comprehensible
  17. Try to Write as if Posthumously: Christopher Hitchens on Art and Death
  18. The 11 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2011
  19. Introducing Book Pickings: A Visual Bookshelf
  20. Steve Jobs on Why Computers Are Like a Bicycle for the Mind (1990)
  21. Annie Dillard on Winter and the Wonder of Life
  22. I Want My Hat Back: A Darkly Delightful Masterpiece by Jon Klassen
  23. Move Your Story Right Along: The Elements of Style Rap
  24. Arrested Development & Philosophy: They’ve Made a Huge Mistake
  25. Writers and Their Books: Inside Famous Authors’ Personal Libraries
  26. Occupy Scales of Wealth: Income Inequality Visualized as NYC Map
  27. The Best Food Books of 2011
  28. Philip K. Dick on Beauty, Suffering, and the Nature of the Universe
  29. The 11 Best History Books of 2011
  30. The Modernist Nerd: Vintage Science Ads from the 1950s-1960s
  31. Viewers Like You: Edward Gorey’s Animated Intro for PBS’s Mystery
  32. Maira Kalman + Daniel Handler Illustrate a Breakup Through Significant Objects
  33. Sir David Attenborough Narrates Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” to Glorious Glimpses of Nature
  34. Marginalia and the Yin-Yang of Reading and Writing
  35. Alter Ego: Portraits of Gamers Next to Their Avatars
  36. No Ordinary Genius: BBC Captures Richard Feynman’s Legacy
  37. Product Design: A PBS Off Book Documentary
  38. The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Visual Micro-Tales of Our Shared Humanity
  39. Eames: The Architect and the Painter
  40. From Jack Kerouac to Ayn Rand: Iconic Writers on Symbolism, 1963
  41. Dear Art World: William Powhida’s Critique of Everything That’s Wrong with Contemporary Culture
  42. The 11 Best Science Books of 2011
  43. Matthew Picton’s Map Sculptures of Cities Made of Books about the City
  44. From Beer to Life on Mars: The Seven Wonders of Microbes
  45. What Does It Mean To Be Human? 300 Years of Definitions and Reflections
  46. Gay in America: A Photographic Tapestry of Faceted Humanity
  47. From Frida Kahlo to Freud, Finger Puppets of Cultural Icons
  48. How “the Most Beautiful Woman in the World” Invented a System for Remote-Controlling Torpedoes That Laid the Groundwork for Wifi
  49. The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott: 100 Years of Polar Mystery
  50. What is Generative Art? A 7-Minute PBS Micro-Documentary
  51. Tantra Song: Rare 17th-Century Indian Paintings That Look Like 20th-Century Western Art
  52. How Bananas Became a Global Commodity
  53. The Natural History of Evolution, in Stunning Black-and-White Photographs of Animal Skeletons
  54. Inside the Sketchbooks of the World’s Greatest Type Designers
  55. Kathryn Schulz on the Psychology of Regret and How to Live with It
  56. The 11 Best Photography Books of 2011
  57. Introducing the Regifting API: Free Tools to Destigmatize Regifting
  58. The Secret of Life from Steve Jobs in 46 Seconds
  59. The Astonishing Visual Lists of Autistic Savant Gregory Blackstock
  60. Lovely Stop-Motion Book Trailers for Stiefvater’s Fantasy Trilogy
  61. Spiderman-Like Folk Hero Taunts the Nazis in 1945 Czech Animation
  62. The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini

November 2011

  1. The Cult of LEGO
  2. The Hare and the Tortoise: 1947 Dramatization with Live Animals
  3. Oscar Wilde: The Rise and Fall of the 20th Century’s First Pop Celebrity
  4. The Curious Sofa: Edward Gorey’s Vintage “Porno-graphic” Children’s Book for Adults
  5. The Physics Book: An Illustrated Chronology of How We Understand the Universe
  6. Do! A Minimalist Handmade Pictogram Book in the Style of Indian Tribal Art
  7. 25 Celebrated Saul Bass Title Sequences in 100 seconds
  8. The 11 Best Art and Design Books of 2011
  9. A Mosaic Time-Lapse Visualization of the Sky for an Entire Year
  10. Farm Anatomy: Julia Rothman’s Illustrated Guide to Country Life
  11. John Lennon’s Handwritten To-Do List
  12. Steve Jobs and NeXT: Rare PBS Documentary circa 1986
  13. A Book of Sleep: A Sweet Illustrated Lullaby
  14. Charade: Lessons in Creative Vision from a 1984 College Student
  15. PANTONE: A Color History of the 20th Century
  16. We Love You, Beatles: Vintage Children’s Illustration Circa 1971
  17. Destino: A Salvador Dalí + Walt Disney Collaboration Circa 1945
  18. And So It Goes: A Rare Glimpse of Kurt Vonnegut’s Tortured Soul
  19. Venus with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Athletic Women
  20. The Silver Fox Experiment: How Dogs Became Dogs
  21. The 11 Best Illustrated Children’s and Picture Books of 2011
  22. Hands Are Amazing
  23. Jerry’s Map: 2,000 Panels of Cartographic Imagination
  24. How to Get Unstuck in 30 Seconds
  25. Inside the Creative Process of Cut-Paper Storyteller Béatrice Coron
  26. Choosing to Die: Sir Terry Pratchett Comes to Terms with His Death
  27. Artist Terry Border Imagines Everyday Objects in Romantic and Risqué Scenarios
  28. Superwoman Was Already Here: Montessori’s Philosophy, Animated
  29. Blok: Playful, Voyeuristic Vintage Polish Experimental Animation
  30. Free Ride: Digital Parasites and the Fight for the Business of Culture
  31. Salvador Dalí Illustrates Alice in Wonderland, 1969
  32. Meat the Future: An Animated Case for In-Vitro Meat
  33. Celestial Navigations: 5 Conceptual Vintage Science Films by Al Jarnow
  34. Goodnight iPad: A Parody for the Next Generation
  35. Onward to the Edge: Another Symphony of Science Remix Gem
  36. Animals Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before
  37. How Darwin’s Photographic Studies of Human Emotions Changed Visual Culture
  38. Human Brain: Extraordinary 48-Dancer Trailer for TEDxAmsterdam
  39. The Universal Traveler: A Vintage Guide to Creative Problem-Solving
  40. The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions: Vintage Arsenal of Masonic Pranksters
  41. The Holstee LifeCycle Film: Visual Poetry for Bike-Lovers and Creators
  42. Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon
  43. Carl Warner’s Whimsical Food Landscapes
  44. Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors: The Physical Underbelly of the Internet
  45. The Ecstasy of Influence: Jonathan Lethem on the Author as a Public Intellectual
  46. Menagerie: Sharon Montrose’s Evocative Portraits of Animals
  47. A Manifesto for the Spirit of Journalism circa 1940
  48. From Freud’s Couch to Emily Dickinson’s Only Surviving Dress: Annie Leibovitz Catalogs Meta-Cultural Iconography
  49. Leonard Weisgard’s Stunning 1949 Alice in Wonderland Illustrations
  50. A Painting of Cancer Cells Inspired by Carl Sagan
  51. Gerhard Richter: Tate Modern Celebrates One of the Greatest Artists Alive
  52. Harris Tweed: The Story of the Greatest Cloth of All
  53. What Is Motion Design?
  54. Science Ink: Carl Zimmer Catalogs the Tattoos of Science Nerds
  55. Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design
  56. Stefanie Posavec on Her Obsessive Analog Data Visualization
  57. The Table Comes First: Adam Gopnik on the Meaning of Food
  58. The Art of Pixar: Behind the Scenes of 25 Years of Beloved Animation
  59. Balloons for Bhutan: Jonathan Harris Documents Happiness
  60. Maurice Sendak’s Rare Velveteen Rabbit Illustrations circa 1960
  61. Maira Kalman Illustrates Michael Pollan’s Iconic Food Rules
  62. J.R.R. Tolkien’s Little-Known Original Drawings for the First Edition of “The Hobbit”
  63. You Are Not So Smart: A Field Guide to the Brain’s Guile

October 2011

  1. From Philosophy to Art, 10 Essential Books on Protest
  2. Vintage Halloween: Haunted Postcards from the Early 1900s
  3. The Recipe Project: Recipes by Rock-Star Chefs Set to Song
  4. My Faraway One: The Passionate Love Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
  5. Shel Silverstein Duets with Johnny Cash, 1970
  6. Studio on Fire: Iron Beasts Make Great Beauty
  7. The Little Book of Hindu Deities: Pixar Animator Rethinks Mythology
  8. Learners Will Inherit the Earth: Alistair Smith on Fixing Education
  9. What Is a Person?
  10. Books: A Living History
  11. National Geographic: Inside the Milky Way
  12. How the Difference Between Your Experiencing Self and Your Remembering Self Shapes Your Happiness
  13. Visual Storytelling: New Language for the Information Age
  14. Mesmerizing Footage of Picasso Painting on Glass
  15. The Phantom Tollbooth at 50: Celebrating Timeless Imagination
  16. Eli, No! An Illustrated Antidote to Perfectionism
  17. All Nothing: Poetic 1978 Animated Allegory about Mankind’s Greed
  18. 5 Unsung Heroes Who Shaped Modern Life
  19. Stunning Subjectivity: Obsessive Typographic Maps by Paula Scher
  20. Indie Music Legends Celebrate the Songs of Shel Silverstein
  21. The Divided Brain, Animated: Iain McGilchrist on Consciousness and Connection
  22. A Collection a Day: An Obsessive Homage to Order
  23. Spike Jonze’s Handmade Stop-Motion Love Story for Bibliophiles
  24. I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words via 200 Quotes
  25. A Sky Full of Kindness: Beautiful and Profound Cut-Paper Meditations on Life by Artist Rob Ryan
  26. Six Famous Thought Experiments, Animated in 60 Seconds Each
  27. Depression-Era Woodcuts by Lynd Ward, Father of the Graphic Novel
  28. The Little Red Hen: Andy Warhol’s Pre-Pop 1958 Children’s Illustration
  29. Sound Is…
  30. Astronomy for the Rest of Us: A Naked-Eye Tour of the Sky
  31. Breathtaking Photographs of Sea Creatures by Mark Laita
  32. Whale Fall: A Lyrical Paper-Cutout Animation about the Cycle of Life in the Microcosm of a Whale
  33. 7 Must-Read Books on Time
  34. A Visual Ethnography of the World’s Last Nomadic Peoples
  35. BBC’s Volatile History of Chemistry
  36. A Graphic Novel Biography of Richard Feynman
  37. Rare Images from the Golden Age of Circus, 1870-1950
  38. Complaints Choir: The World’s Mundane Grievances Set to Song
  39. Young Hemingway’s Letters: A Rare Glimpse of the Author’s Tender Side
  40. Nurturing Walls: Indian Women’s Stunning Tribal Art Tradition
  41. How Radio Broadcasting Works: An Animated Explanation from 1937
  42. The Anatomy of Influence: Mapping the Labyrinth of Literature
  43. Every Page of Moby-Dick, Illustrated
  44. Perversion for Profit: Vintage Anti-Porn Propaganda
  45. What Translation Reveals about the Human Condition
  46. Poets Ranked by Beard Weights
  47. Animation Pioneer Max Fleischer Illustrates 1944-1945 News Wires
  48. 7 Essential Collections of Conversations with Cultural Icons
  49. The Disciples: James Mollison’s Portraits of Music Subcultures
  50. Richard Feynman on Beauty, Honors, and Curiosity
  51. Apple and the Bananas: A Steve Jobs Personal Remembrance
  52. Hark! A Vagrant: Witty Comics about Historical & Literary Figures
  53. Bob Dylan & Other Icons Resurrect the Unfinished Lost Songs of Hank Williams
  54. The Magic of Reality: Richard Dawkins Teaches Children to Fight Myth with Science
  55. Breakfast at Tiffany’s Turns 50: Celebrating Audrey Hepburn
  56. Everything is a Remix: Creative Influences in The Matrix
  57. Remembering One of the Greatest Science Writers of All Time
  58. The Innovator’s Cookbook: Great Minds on the Power of Serendipity
  59. MetaMaus: Inside the Making of the Comic that Made History
  60. They Draw & Cook: Recipes Illustrated by Global Artists
  61. Catalyzing Creativity: 7 Playful Activity Books for Grown-Ups
  62. Charles Eames on Design: Rare and Wonderful Q&A from 1972
  63. People Who Became Nouns: The Music Video

September 2011

  1. A Map of Woman’s Heart: Satirical Illustrated Cartography of Victorian Gender Stereotypes
  2. Celebrating the Art of Competitive Beard and Mustache Grooming
  3. Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964, Gets It Oddly Right
  4. Hall of Femmes: The Female Icons of Graphic Design
  5. The Ropes at Disney: 1943 Walt Disney Employee Handbook
  6. Maphead: Exploring the Mystery of Why Maps Sing to Us
  7. Gorgeous Grimm: 130 Years of Brothers Grimm Visual Legacy
  8. Lessons for the Living from the Brink of Death
  9. The Toaster Project: A DIY Quest for the Origins of Stuff
  10. The Bippolo Seed: Seven Rare Dr. Seuss Stories Brought to Light
  11. Austin Kleon on Cultivating Creativity in the Digital Age
  12. Today Yesterday: 5 Vintage Visions for the Future of Technology
  13. 7 Nonfiction Children’s Books Blending Whimsy and Education
  14. The Conscience of Television
  15. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
  16. I Like Cats: A Picture-Book Showcase of Indian Folk Art
  17. What Makes Hitchcock’s Films Great: An Animated Recipe
  18. Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”: A Neuropsychology Reading
  19. Missed Connections Illustrated: Artist Sophie Blackall’s Touching Visual Odes to Modern Love
  20. The Communist Threat: A Trip Through America’s Ideological Wayback Machine
  21. The Story of the Millennium Seed Bank Project + Gorgeous Vintage Seed Catalog Cover Artwork
  22. Culturomics: What We Can Learn from 5 Million Books
  23. Public Science Triumphs: Cat-Inspired Computing of the Future
  24. Tales for Little Rebels: Radical Politics in Famous Children’s Books
  25. An Animated Adaptation of “The Giving Tree,” Narrated by Shel Silverstein Himself
  26. Dime-Store Alchemy: Joseph Cornell’s Surrealist Shadow Boxes
  27. The Night Life of Trees: Exquisite Handmade Illustrations Based on Indian Mythology
  28. Queenslander: Gorgeous Vintage Australian Illustrated Covers
  29. Parastou Forouhar: Art, Life and Death in Iran
  30. 5 Vintage Versions of Modern Social Media from Centuries Ago
  31. New York and the Dawn of Cartoons: 7 Animation Pioneers
  32. The Geography of Bliss: The Secrets of the Happiest Places on Earth
  33. Edward Gorey’s Never-Before-Seen Letters and Illustrated Envelopes
  34. 1951 Black-and-White Animation on How Different Drugs Work
  35. George Price and the Quest for the Origins of Altruism
  36. Cyclepedia: An Homage to the Beauty of the Bicycle
  37. Pump Up The Volume: A History of House Music
  38. Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power & Technology
  39. Wonderstruck: Remarkable New Work from Brian Selznick
  40. How the Aurora Borealis Works
  41. 15 Years of Cutting-Edge Thinking on Understanding the Mind
  42. The Unwilling Tourist: Vintage Czech Illustration Captures the Life of the Refugee
  43. Democracy & Despotism: 1940s Encyclopedia Britannica Films
  44. Five Timeless Books of Insight on Fear and the Creative Process
  45. Illustrated Flowcharts to Find Answers to Life’s Big Questions
  46. Portraits of Workspaces
  47. Redirect: A New Way to Think About Psychological Change
  48. A Brief Visual History of Robots in a Matrix of Creepiness & Intelligence
  49. This Must Be The Place: Poetic Short Films Explore ‘Home’
  50. Asylum: Inside the Haunting World of 19th-Century Mental Hospitals
  51. Made in Russia: Vintage Curiosities of Soviet Design
  52. World Science Festival: Scents and Sensibilities, or How Smell Works
  53. New Philanthropy: End Malaria and Boost Your Own Creative Process
  54. Everything Sings: Countercultural Cartography of the Invisible Life of a Neighborhood
  55. Ray: A Life Underwater
  56. Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens, Possibly His Last
  57. Spitting in the Face of Creativity?
  58. Sentics: Emotional Healing Through Music and Touch
  59. Doyald Young: The Self-Made Typography Icon in His Own Words
  60. Lewis Mumford on the City: Rare Footage from 1963
  61. Monoculture: How Our Era’s Dominant Story Shapes Our Lives
  62. Believing Is Seeing: Errol Morris Unravels the Greatest Mysteries of Photojournalism
  63. Arnold Schoenberg’s Music Notation Based on Tennis: A Tribute to George Gershwin
  64. The Secret Life of Pronouns: Computational Linguistics and What Our Word Choices Reveal About Us

August 2011

  1. Al Jaffee’s Iconic MAD Fold-Ins: The Definitive Collection, 1964-2010
  2. Metropopular: If Cities Could Speak
  3. Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns for the Information Age
  4. An Emergency in Slow Motion: A “Psychobiography” of Diane Arbus
  5. Major Movements in Philosophy as Minimalist Geometric Graphics
  6. Lip Service: The Science of Smiles
  7. People: A Meditation on Human Duality by Illustrator Blexbolex
  8. Happy Birthday, John Locke: The Essential Locke in 3 Minutes
  9. Analog Books to Die For: Five Fantastic Die-Cut Books
  10. Illustrated Three-Line Novels by the One-Man Twitter of 1906 France
  11. Video Portraits of Resilience from Sri Lanka
  12. The Ghost Map: Hard Lessons in Epidemiology from Victorian London
  13. 19th-Century Anthropomorphic Animals from the NYPL Archives
  14. You’re a Wonder: How Your Ear Works
  15. A Definitive Guide to Leonardo da Vinci’s Paintings and Drawings
  16. Mathemagician Vi Hart Explains the Science of Sound, Frequency and Pitch
  17. Andrew Zuckerman: Curiosity and Rigor are the Secret to Creativity
  18. 1493: An Uncommon History of How Columbus Changed the World
  19. 11 Piano Lessons in 9 Minutes from Iconic Jazz Pianist Earl “Fatha” Hines
  20. Architects’ Sketchbooks: Behind the World’s Most Magnificent Buildings
  21. The Myth of Popular Culture: Why ‘Highbrow’ & ‘Lowbrow’ Don’t Work
  22. Famous Lives in Minimalist Pictogram Flowcharts: From Darth Vader to Jesus
  23. Understanding Urbanity: 7 Must-Read Books About Cities
  24. Noam Chomsky Explains the Cold War in 5 Minutes
  25. Savoy Cocktail Book: Retro Recipes for Drinks from the 1920s-1930s
  26. Mod Odyssey: How The Beatles Revolutionized Animation in 1968
  27. How the Science of Attention is Changing Work and Education
  28. Walls Notebook: Unleash Your Inner Graffiti Artist
  29. Mashup Masterpiece: Cookie Monster Sings Tom Waits
  30. Brain Culture: How Neuroscience Became a Pop Culture Fixation
  31. Science vs. Religion: 50 Famous Scientists on God, Part 2
  32. Portraits of Cultural Icons by 80 of the World’s Top Illustrators
  33. The Stanford Prison Experiment: History’s Most Controversial Psychology Study Turns 40
  34. How a Book is Made: 4th vs. 20th vs. 21st Century
  35. Samuel Beckett’s Only Cinematic Project: A Silent Film from 1965
  36. The Exposed City: A Brief History of Mapping the Urban Invisibles
  37. A Brief History of Menu Design, 1850-1985
  38. 7 Essential Books on Street Art
  39. Do You See What I See? BBC on the Subjectivity of Color Perception
  40. Salvador Dalí on Decadence, Death and Immortality: The 1958 Interview
  41. Digital Humanities Spotlight: 7 Important Digitization Projects
  42. On Loving Animals: A Visual Study of Affection and Its Extremes
  43. Library of Dust: Reflections on Life Through the Unclaimed Dead
  44. The Homosexuals: A CBS “Documentary” from 1967
  45. Tom Gauld’s Both: If Edward Gorey Did Contemporary Quirk-Comics
  46. Illegal Drugs, Explained in LEGO: A 1970s PSA
  47. Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge
  48. Astonish Me: A Beautiful Short Film About the Mysteries of Nature
  49. Radioactive Orchestra: Making Music from Nuclear Isotopes
  50. Comic Books for Grown-Ups: 10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction
  51. In The Plex: How Google Changed Our Lives and Everything Else
  52. Where Children Sleep: James Mollison’s Poignant Photographs
  53. Letters to Children from Cultural Icons on the Love of Libraries
  54. Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers On Their Art
  55. New McSweeney’s Children’s Book Uses Thermal Ink for Secret Images
  56. Move, Learn, Eat: Around the World in 3 Timelapse Short Films
  57. Typography in 7 Minutes: A PBS Micro-Documentary
  58. Seasons: A Meditation on Change by French Illustrator Blexbolex
  59. Happy Birthday, Louis Armstrong: What a Wonderful World
  60. Driving with Plato: Life Lessons from History’s Greatest Minds
  61. Life of Pi: Croatian Illustrator Takes on a Modern Classic
  62. Paleo-Pundit: 1963 Educational Film about Lasers
  63. How Music and Language Mimicked Nature to Evolve Us
  64. Colour Mania: A Global Spectrum of Unitone Design
  65. Rare Early Photographs of Musicians Around the World
  66. Kooky Cookery: Retro Recipes for Culinary Frankensteining
  67. Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
  68. 10 Essential Books on Typography
  69. Circles of Influence: Visualizing Creative Debt Throughout History

July 2011

  1. Own a Warhol for $5: Warhol’s Obscure 1959 Children’s Book
  2. Visualizing the Expansion of the Universe: The Most Accurate Measurement Yet
  3. The Book of Symbols: Carl Jung’s Catalog of the Unconscious
  4. Noma Bar’s Minimalist Vector Portraits of Cultural Icons
  5. Ethnic Diversity in Russia 100 Year Ago, Restored in Color
  6. A Field Guide to the North American Family: A Meditation on Humanness
  7. The Beginning of Infinity: David Deutsch Explains the World
  8. Hurricane Story: A Haunting Analog Photo-Memoir of Katrina, Partway Between Nightmare and Fairy Tale
  9. Science vs. Religion: 50 Famous Academics on God
  10. Book of Ice: DJ Spooky’s Cross-Disciplinary Antarctica Project
  11. Digital Decluttering: 3 Ways to Visualize Your Mac’s Hard Drive
  12. Visualize This: How to Tell Stories with Data
  13. Akule: Magnificent Black-and-White Underwater Photographs
  14. 7 (More) Little-Known Children’s Books by Celebrated Authors of Literature for Grownups
  15. A Brief History of Film Title Sequence Design in 2 Minutes
  16. Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight
  17. Aftercrimes, Geoslavery & Thermogeddon: Lexicographer Erin McKean’s TEDBook on New Words
  18. The Man of Numbers: How Fibonacci Changed the World
  19. How Alex Steinweiss Invented the Album Cover
  20. Tom Wolfe on Marshall McLuhan for His 100th Would-Be Birthday
  21. Urban Atrophy: Haunting Photos of Architectural Ghosts
  22. Life in the Abyss: Behind the Scenes of the Census of Marine Life
  23. Brain Bugs: The Glorious Imperfections of Our Brains
  24. 7 Obscure Children’s Books by Authors of Grown-Up Literature
  25. Andrew Bush’s Drive-By Portraits: A Meditation on Character
  26. Project Earth: A Resource-Based Economy Explained
  27. Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour, a BBC Documentary
  28. A Brief Visual History of Vintage Typographic Scripts
  29. 7 Celebrations of Nelson Mandela
  30. How Illuminated Manuscripts Were Made
  31. 10 Life Lessons from Esquire’s “What I’ve Learned” Interviews
  32. The Lists, To-dos and Illustrated Inventories of Great Artists
  33. Beauchamping: Simple Design for a Better World
  34. The Influencing Machine: A Brief Visual History of the Media
  35. Highlights from TED Global 2011, The Stuff of Life: Day Two
  36. Ingrid Dabringer’s Map Paintings: Finding Whimsy in Geography
  37. From Old Books: Heaven for the Visual Bibliophile
  38. Highlights from TED Global 2011, The Stuff of Life: Day One
  39. Nathalie Miebach’s Sculptural Soundtracks for Storms
  40. Albertus Seba’s Amazing Cabinet of Natural Curiosities
  41. Of Lamb: A Children’s Classic Retold for Contrarians
  42. Space Shuttle’s Legacy: A Carl Sagan Remix
  43. 5 Must-Read Books by TED Global Speakers, Part 2
  44. Polymorphic Computing, Explained in Vintage Stop-Motion (1959)
  45. 7 Fundamental Meditations on Faith
  46. The Dawn of Computer Music: A PBS Segment from 1986
  47. Ordering the Heavens: A Visual History of Mapping the Universe
  48. Built to Last: The Illustrated Secrets of Mankind’s Greatest Structures
  49. Fuzz & Fur: Japan’s Peculiar Subculture of Fur-Suit Mascots
  50. Concord Free Press: Free Their Books and Their Minds Will Follow
  51. Remembering Louis Armstrong: Satchmo, the Documentary
  52. Spomenik: Eerie Retrofuturistic Monuments of the Eastern Bloc
  53. The Lost Thing: A Whimsical Story about Belonging by Shaun Tan
  54. Before Walt Disney: 5 Animations by Early Cinema Pioneers
  55. 7 Essential Books on Optimism
  56. A Tribute to René: Haunting Motion-Graphics Homage to René Magritte
  57. Slavoj Žižek’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in One Minute
  58. Linda McCartney’s Tender Photographs of The Beatles and Other Icons
  59. Nabokov’s Legacy: Bequeathing Butterfly Theory

June 2011

  1. Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo: The First True Animation, 1911
  2. 7 Essential Books on Data Visualization & Computational Art
  3. BBC’s The Beauty of Maps
  4. 7 Platforms for Collaborative Creation for the Post-Industrial Age
  5. Anything You Want: Derek Sivers on the Secrets of Entrepreneurship
  6. The Ego Trick: Julian Baggini in Search of the Self
  7. 7 Platforms Changing the Future of Publishing and Storytelling
  8. BBC’s The Romantics: The Birth of the Individual in Modern Society
  9. Molly Landreth’s Tender Vintage Portraits of Modern Queer Life
  10. The Five Greatest TED Talks of All Time
  11. Kurt Vonnegut Interviewed on NPR Inside Second Life
  12. Happy Birthday, George Orwell: BBC’s 1954 1984 Adaptation
  13. The Exultant Ark: The Secret Emotional Lives of Animals
  14. The Best Book, Magazine & Catalog Covers from around the World
  15. Renata Salecl: How Limitless Choice Limits Social Change
  16. The Open Day Book: Perpetual Calendar by 365 Leading Artists
  17. Hume at 300: Timeless Philosophy for Timely Thinking
  18. The Beekepers: Artful Documentary about Colony Collapse Disorder
  19. Iron Fists: A Design History of Totalitarian Regimes
  20. Shapes for Sounds: A Visual History of the Alphabet
  21. 5 Fantastic Daily Email Newsletters for a Better Life
  22. Everything is a Remix, Part 3: The Elements of Creativity
  23. The Medium is the Massage: Shepard Fairey + Marshall McLuhan
  24. Sentimental Value: Shopping for Human Stories on eBay
  25. A Peek Inside the Notebooks of Great Creators, from Architecture to Advertising to Street Art
  26. Altered Focus: Exploring Burma’s Political Regime via Skateboarding
  27. The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
  28. A Rare Look at Michelangelo’s Private Papers
  29. Arthur Conan Doyle, Psychic: Rare Footage from 1930
  30. 10 Beautiful Typographic Covers of Non-Typography Books
  31. Dripped: French Animated Homage to Jackson Pollock
  32. Brian X. Chen on How the iPhone Changed Everything
  33. Green Porno: Isabella Rossellini Celebrates Animal Biology
  34. Obsessive Consumption: Life in a Material World, Illustrated
  35. The Vowels: A Ken Burns Parody
  36. Kurt Vonnegut: Armageddon in Retrospect
  37. John Lithgow Reads Mark Twain, Live-Illustrated
  38. (Almost) Everything You Need to Know about Culture in 10 Books
  39. As Little Design as Possible: The Work of Dieter Rams
  40. Words To Live By: 5 Timeless Commencement Addresses
  41. Rare Book Feast: Celebrating the Timeless Character of Books
  42. La Figa: Visions of Food and Form
  43. The Internet Is My Religion: Jim Gilliam on the Divinity of the Web
  44. Power: Platon’s Portraits of World Leaders
  45. The Perfect City: What Does “Community” Mean to You?
  46. The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels: A Brief History of the Bike
  47. American Look: A Technicolor Homage to Mid-Century Design
  48. Drawn In: A Peek Inside Favorite Artists’ Private Sketchbooks
  49. The Ascent of Money: A PBS Financial History of the World
  50. The Sorcerers & Their Apprentices: The Untold Story of MIT Media Lab
  51. 5 Must-Read Books by TED Global 2011 Speakers
  52. Christoph Niemann on Happiness, Work and Creativity
  53. The Moby Awards for Best and Worst Book Trailers
  54. Landscape Permutations: An Experiment in Place and Space
  55. Bibliographic: The 100 Best Design Books of the Past 100 Years
  56. The Modernist: Graphic Design’s Mid-Century Muse
  57. Pretty Big Dig: Construction Cranes as Ballet Dancers
  58. Dear Me: Letters by Luminaries to Their Teenage Selves
  59. thxthxthx: The Art of Finding Happiness in Everyday Gratitude
  60. Designing Minds: Uncovered Video Profiles of Prominent Designers
  61. Incognito: David Eagleman Unravels the Secret Lives of the Brain

May 2011

  1. An Illustrated Guide to Cockroaches
  2. E. chromi: Designer Bacteria for Color-Coded Disease Detection
  3. Drawing Nature: Learning to See the World by Learning to Draw It
  4. Geometry of Circles: Philip Glass + Sesame Street (1979)
  5. Summer Reading List: 10 Essential Books for Cognitive Sunshine
  6. Frank Sinatra: A Rare Documentary from 1965
  7. The Cloud Collector’s Handbook: Cloudy Images to Clear the Mind
  8. Radioactive: Marie Curie’s Radical and Revolutionary Life, in Lyrical Cyanotype Illustrations
  9. Cold War Wonderland: Photographing the East/West Divide
  10. Michael Meets Mozart: Piano, Cello and Mashup Magic
  11. Follow For Now: A Time-Capsule of Contemporary Thought
  12. Content Is Queen: A Generative Portrait of Democracy
  13. Past Objects: Excavated Curiosities from New York’s Forgotten Past
  14. How Ralph Waldo Emerson Shaped the American Ideal
  15. My Visual Diary : A Month-in-the-Life in Stop-Motion
  16. The Interface is the Message: Aaron Koblin on Visual Storytelling at TED
  17. Little Bets: A New Theory of Creativity and Innovation
  18. Cement Eclipses: Tiny Street Art Sculptures by Isaac Cordal
  19. Egypt in the Early 1900s: Rare Vintage Lantern Slides
  20. The Medium Is Not The Message: 3 Handwritten Newspapers
  21. A Brief History of Cheese
  22. Live Now: Existential Affirmation by Design
  23. Happy Birthday, Dieter Rams: Revisiting Less & More
  24. Vintage Ballet: Rare Photos of Dancers from the 1930s-1950s
  25. How Shakespeare Changed Everything
  26. LE GUN 1,2,3 : Bleeding-Edge Illustration from Around the Globe
  27. Happy Birthday, Frank Capra: 5 Essential Films
  28. Partitura: Mesmerizing Music Visualization Software
  29. Field Notes: A Glimpse Inside Great Explorers’ Notebooks
  30. A Design Ethnography of South African Barbershops & Salons
  31. A Rare Look at Japan: Hand-Colored Images from the 1920s
  32. BBC’s The Human Animal
  33. In The Wilds: Illustrating the Charm of the Countryside
  34. The Music of Philip Glass, Visualized in Fractals
  35. Cultural Connectives: Understanding Arab Culture Through Typography
  36. From Nature to NASA: The Fascinating Story of Velcro, a Pioneering Masterpiece of Biomimicry
  37. Before Muybridge: Pioneering Nineteenth-Century Motion Photography by French Scientist Étienne-Jules Marey
  38. The Filter Bubble: Algorithm vs. Curator & the Value of Serendipity
  39. Famous Creators on the Fear of Failure
  40. New Dawn, New Day: Introducing the New Brain Pickings
  41. Kurt Vonnegut’s Fictional Interviews with Luminaries
  42. Out of Character: The Psychology of Good and Evil
  43. DrawHappy: Ongoing Global Art Project on Happiness
  44. Justin Gignac on Idea Envy and Embracing Imperfection
  45. Writers’ Houses Illustrated
  46. Christoph Niemann: How the World Works
  47. Sam + Friends: Vintage Muppets Explore Visual Thinking
  48. Railway Maps of the World
  49. Let England Shake: One Album, 12 Short Films
  50. A World Without Moms
  51. Notations 21: Musicians Visualize Sheet Music in Imaginative Ways Inspired by John Cage
  52. BBC: The Making of The King James Bible
  53. Urban Iran: A Rare Look at Iran’s Street Art Scene
  54. 5 Guides to Life from Cultural Luminaries
  55. Mapping the Human Condition
  56. The Old Man and The Sea, Finger-Painted and Animated on Glass
  57. An Optimist’s Tour of the Future
  58. 6 Popular Business Books Adapted as Comics
  59. Old Jews Telling Jokes
  60. Children and Established Artists Draw Autism
  61. Lawrence Lessig on the Free Access Movement
  62. Mabel Pike: Portrait of a 91-Year-Old Moccasin Maker
  63. Papercraft 2: Analog Creativity for the Digital Age
  64. Analog Infoviz: Handmade Visualization Toolkit

April 2011

  1. Arabic Graffiti: An Eastern Voice in the Global Street Art Dialogue
  2. 7 Brilliant Book Trailers
  3. David Clemesha’s Hand-Lettered Nursery Rhymes
  4. Human Planet: BBC Unravels Earth’s Secrets
  5. Breaking In: Advice from 100 Advertising Rockstars
  6. HyperCities: Every Past is a Place
  7. Animated Infographic: Unspilling the Gulf Oil
  8. Tina Fey Makes Google’s Eric Schmidt Really, Really Uncomfortable
  9. Mark of Cain: The Language of Russian Criminal Tattoos
  10. Tony Orrico: The Human Spirograph
  11. Samuel Price’s Incredible Dog Portrait Collages
  12. The Ragged Edge of Silence: The Art of Listening
  13. Edward Burtynsky’s Oil
  14. Hello, I Like You: Abstracting Happiness
  15. Celebrating Ella Fitzgerald
  16. Three-Minute Kant
  17. An Eyeful of Sound: How Synesthesia Works
  18. Writer’s Block in Stop-Motion, Shakespeare-Style
  19. The Language of Graphic Design
  20. Tweets from Tahrir: Rare Record of a Revoltuion
  21. something: An Open-Story Plot Device for Life
  22. The 3D Type Book: A Typographic Treasure
  23. Symmetry: A Wordless Split-Screen Meditation on Duality
  24. Eastern Eggs: Bot-Etched Art Eggs for Japan
  25. Bompas & Parr, Jelly Architects
  26. How Cancer Became Cancer and What Its Future Holds: A Pulitzer-Winning Biography of the Dreaded Disease
  27. Everything Is Going To Be OK: Aesthetic Anesthesia for the Soul
  28. NASA + William Shatner: Space Shuttle’s Legacy
  29. Quakebook: Twitter-Sourced Anthology for and by Japan
  30. Why We Love: Five Revelatory Books on the Psychology of the Heart
  31. The Ancient Book of Myth and War
  32. Jonathan Harris: The Storytelling of Life
  33. 5 (More) Children’s Books for Grown-Ups
  34. IOU Project: Social Technology Meets Artisanal Tradition
  35. A Brief History of the Pun
  36. Gilbert Tuhabonye on Genocide, Running and Forgiveness
  37. A Rare Look at Antarctica, 1911-1914
  38. Bent Objects: The Secret Life of Everyday Things
  39. David Friedman’s Portraits of Inventors
  40. The Fairest Fowl: Portraits of Championship Chickens
  41. Collaborative Whimsy: Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir
  42. Poetry Animated: Tim Minchin’s “Storm”
  43. Game Frame: Bringing Game Mechanics to Work
  44. How New Yorkers Feel About Art
  45. 7 Must-Read Books on Education
  46. NOVA: A Free Documentary about Contemporary Art
  47. Five Manifestos for the Creative Life
  48. Material World: A Portrait of the World’s Possessions
  49. Ants Are Amazing: Count the Ways, Literally
  50. Skillshare: Decentralized Education for All
  51. Metrocard Collages: 3 Phenomenal Artists
  52. SubMap: Visualizing Subjective Urban Patterns
  53. Computational Origami by MIT’s Erik Demaine
  54. Store Front: New York’s Disappearing Face
  55. Flourish: The Father of Positive Psychology Redefines Well-Being
  56. LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy on the Future of Taste
  57. One Day Without Shoes: Going Barefoot for Children
  58. Ball of Light: How Light Painting Saved a Man’s Life
  59. 5 Must-Read Books on the Psychology of Being Wrong
  60. 5 Questions x 8 Interesting People x SXSW 2011
  61. Moby-Duck: A Quest for the Story Behind Bathtime
  62. Stephen Hawking and the Theory of Everything

March 2011

  1. Let’s Dance: A Stop-Motion Homage to Modern Love
  2. Viliam: Slovakian Short Film about Happiness & Delusion
  3. A Rare Archive: The Lost Beatles Photographs
  4. Underwater Sculptures Help Corals Thrive
  5. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
  6. Through the Middle: Bittersweet Short Film about a Barber, Perseverance, and Impermanence
  7. Fifty Nests and the Birds that Built Them
  8. Noma Bar’s Negative Space Illustrations
  9. Michael Wolff on the Three Muscles of Creativity
  10. Wheels of Change: How The Bicycle Empowered Women
  11. What Is Time? Michio Kaku’s BBC Documentary
  12. An Ode to the Brain: TED + Carl Sagan, Autotuned
  13. The Word Project: Obscure Words in Bricolage
  14. 40K Books: 99-Cent Essays by Million-Dollar Authors
  15. East Meets West: From Mao to Mozart
  16. Dead Men’s Tales: Harry Houdini
  17. How Musicians Experience and Communicate Emotion
  18. The Atomic Cafe: Lampooning America’s Nuclear Obsession
  19. Hans Rosling: How the Washing Machine Sparked the Reading Revolution
  20. The Longevity Project: Insights on Life from an 80-Year Study
  21. YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011
  22. PICKED: Beautiful Short Film for World Water Day
  23. Stencil 101 for Kids & the Eternal Kid
  24. 3 Iconic Film Directors Interpret Classic Operas
  25. Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad on Sound, Science, and Mystery
  26. Vision Revolution: Why We See The Way We Do
  27. 7 Essential Books on Music, Emotion, and the Brain
  28. Scott Belsky on How to Avoid Idea Plateaus
  29. 7 Einstein Classics, Digitized for the First Time
  30. Words Without Words: A Visual Dictionary
  31. PICKED: Escape Vehicle No. 6
  32. PICKED: Waste Land
  33. Enchantment: Guy Kawasaki’s Guide to Success
  34. The Art of Immersion: Dissecting the Future of Storytelling
  35. The Coca-Cola Case
  36. PICKED: Cry Baby, The Pedal That Rocks The World
  37. Open-Sourcing Graphic Design: 3 Projects
  38. Albert Einstein: How I See The World
  39. Harvard’s Steven Pinker on Violence and Human Nature
  40. 5 Quirky Coloring Books for The Eternal Kid
  41. Bookbinders: 1961 Documentary Romanticizes Book Craftsmanship
  42. They Draw & Cook: Recipes Illustrated by Artists from Around the World
  43. Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine & the Quest to Know Everything
  44. What the Number Pi Sounds Like
  45. The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books
  46. Lost Roll of Film Finds Its Way Home, Virally
  47. Gerd Artnz Graphic Designer: The Visual Legacy of 4,000 Symbols
  48. Sub City New York: A Cinematic Celebration of Urbanity
  49. Climate Kid: UNICEF’s Platform for Preparedness
  50. The Invention of ISOTYPE: How a Vintage Visual Language Paved the Way for the Infographics Age
  51. How a Book is Made, Circa 1947
  52. Brainman: Inside the Mind of an Autistic Savant
  53. 10 Years of Bicycle Film Festival in 3 Minutes
  54. Graphic USA: Miniguides to 25 Top Cities by 25 Top Designers
  55. 5 (More) Must-Read Books by TED 2011 Speakers
  56. Inside Out Project: Street Artist JR’s $100K TED Prize
  57. Worldchanging: An Updated Vision for a Better World
  58. The Blackwater Gospel: Haunting Danish Animated Short Film
  59. TED 2011: The Rediscovery of Wonder, Day 3
  60. Endnotes: A David Foster Wallace BBC Documentary
  61. Moonwalking with Einstein: How to Hack Your Memory
  62. TED 2011: The Rediscovery of Wonder, Day Two
  63. Who Is The World’s Most Typical Person?
  64. Drawing Inspiration: An Animated Film about Routine & Serendipity
  65. TED 2011: The Rediscovery of Wonder, Day One
  66. Before I Die: Reclaiming Urban Aspiration
  67. Soviet Artist and Mathematician Anatolii Fomenko’s Mathematical Impressions

February 2011

  1. The Almost True Story of NYC’s Subway Helvetica
  2. Paola Antonelli on What Makes Good Design
  3. The Wisdom of TED in Kinetic Typography
  4. Make Love, Not Porn: Technology’s Hardcore Impact on How We Act
  5. Street Artist JonOne Celebrates Abbé Pierre
  6. Alfred Hitchcock on the “Fright Complex”
  7. TEDxAustin Title Sequence
  8. Carl Sagan / Egyptian Revolution Mashup
  9. 5 Must-Read Books by TED 2011 Speakers
  10. Created Equal: Parallel Portraits of Cultural Difference
  11. Waiting for Hockney: Documenting a Dreamer’s Determination
  12. Visions of the Future: Isaac Asimov’s Unrealized Pilot
  13. The Last Lions: NatGeo Photographers Tell an Urgent Story
  14. Inside the Mind of Kanye West: Typographic Phrenology
  15. Visualizing Loudness: The Dark Side of Music Digitization
  16. 7 Must-Read Books on the Future of Information and the Internet
  17. Life Looks for Life: A(nother) NASA Tribute
  18. You Deserve a Medal: Honors on the Path to True Love
  19. 5 Must-See Talks from Google Zeitgeist
  20. Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview
  21. Jacqueline Novogratz on the Life of Immersion
  22. Missing Sarajevo: A Political U2 Rockumentary
  23. The Man Who Invented the Future: Stunning Vintage Illustrations of Jules Verne’s Visionary Imaginings
  24. Pioneers of Spanish Graphic Design
  25. All the Buildings in New York, Illustrated
  26. Jumpin’ Jive: Have a Great Day the Cab Calloway Way
  27. Spark: A Field Guide to How Creativity Works
  28. The Day After Tomorrow: Our Aerial Future
  29. PICKED: Macro Kingdom
  30. The Strange Case of Edward Gorey
  31. Bohemian Rhapsody 5 Ways
  32. Thomas Edison and the Invention of the Movies
  33. Douglas Coupland on Marshall McLuhan’s Prophecy
  34. The Universal Now: Vintage Book Plate Collages
  35. Saul Bass on Money, Quality Work & Creative Legacy
  36. Words on Words: Five Timelessly Stimulating Books About Language
  37. Panorama: A Woodcut Fold-Out Travelogue Promoting Biodiversity
  38. The Future of Art: An Immediated Autodocumentary
  39. Uncovered Gem: Leo Tolstoy’s Grandson Meets the Dalai Lama
  40. PICKED: Iceland Beyond Sigur Rós
  41. Urawaza: The Japanese Art of Lifehacking
  42. Invisible Cities : A Transmedia Mapping Project
  43. Stephen Biesty’s Engineering Illustrations: Art Meets Science
  44. American Maker: A Manifesto for Hands-On Creativity from 1960
  45. The Heroic Imagination Project
  46. Rainn Wilson’s SoulPancake : Exploring Life’s Big Questions
  47. Everything is a Remix, Part 2
  48. 5 Painfully Hilarious Politically Incorrect Books
  49. PICKED: The Smashing Book #2
  50. How to Read: Simon Critchley’s Guide to the Great Texts of Humanity
  51. The Museum of Possibilities
  52. PICKED: A Documentary About Street Artist Ben Eine
  53. Bill Gates on Vaccines: An RSA Animation
  54. Merchants of Culture: A Meditation on the Future of Publishing
  55. Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers: “Playing” Your Abode
  56. The Belief Instinct: Exploring the Science of Spirituality
  57. Designers & Books: What Iconic Designers Are Reading

January 2011

  1. Aaron Koblin on the Digital Renaissance
  2. Word on the Street: Found Urban Type Timed for Social Commentary
  3. Animated Soviet Propaganda
  4. Victorian Women in Crime
  5. David Carter’s Pop-Up Books for Children of All Ages
  6. Isaac Asimov on Science and Creativity in Education
  7. PICKED: Color Story Parallels, Past vs. Present
  8. How to Write a Sentence: A Manual for the Art of Language
  9. MoMA’s Paola Antonelli on Humanized Technology
  10. Democratizing Publishing: TED Launches TEDBooks
  11. The Black Book of Colors: A Lyrical Empathy Tool for the Sighted to See the World Like the Blind Do
  12. Synesthesia Spotlight: 3 Visualizations of Music
  13. The Beale Cipher: A Modern-Day Treasure Hunt
  14. Animating Reality: A Collection of Short Animated Documentaries
  15. 7 Essential Books on the Art and Science of Happiness
  16. Why Man Creates: A Saul Bass Gem from 1968
  17. They Were There: Errol Morris Spotlights Computer Pioneers
  18. What Is Reality? A BBC Horizon Documentary
  19. Lost States: The Stories of Lands that Never Were
  20. 13 Years of Futurism by Cultural Luminaries
  21. Hezârfen: The Story of the First Human Flight, Animated
  22. Penguin by Design: “Good Design Is No More Expensive Than Bad”
  23. Reality Is Broken: How Games Make Us Better
  24. Vi Hart’s Playful Mathematics: Flatland on a Möbius Strip
  25. HBO’s Temple Grandin : Recasting Autism
  26. The Gashlycrumb Tinies: A Very Gorey Alphabet Book
  27. Knowledge Navigator: An Apple Concept from 1987
  28. Stunning Images of Pollen, the Hidden Sexuality of Flowers
  29. A New Culture of Learning: Rethinking Education
  30. The Power of Nightmares : BBC on the Politics of Fear
  31. Carl Sagan’s Cosmos , Remastered
  32. The Tell-Tale Brain: The Neuroscience of Being Human
  33. Citizen King: The Last Five Years of MLK’s Life
  34. See Something Cite Something: A Fair Use Flowchart
  35. The Great Mystery of Photography: How to Photograph a Black Dog
  36. Voyeurism Spotlight: Where and How Creators Create
  37. The Dalai Lama on Women’s Role in Global Peace
  38. Street Sketchbook: The Creative Process of Top Graffiti Artists
  39. Woodworking for Mere Mortals: 5 DIY Wooden Gadgets
  40. Proteus: Ernst Haeckel at the Intersection of Art & Science
  41. The Frontier Is Everywhere: A NASA Tribute
  42. Future Shock: Alvin Toffler’s Vintage Techno-Paranoia, Narrated by Orson Welles
  43. An Animated Tribute to the 10 Ruble Banknote
  44. Transit Maps of the World: A Design History of Transit Systems
  45. Retrofuturism Revisited: The Past Imagines the Future
  46. Stickwork: Patrick Dougherty’s Remarkable Tree Sculptures
  47. Democratizing Art History: 6 smARThistory Primers
  48. Why Can’t We Walk Straight?
  49. TED Unbound: Behind the Scenes of a TED Talk
  50. Visual Life: The Sartorialist’s Creative Process
  51. Creative Cartography: 7 Magnificent Books on Maps
  52. Georges Méliès: The First Cinemagician
  53. Sound Unbound: DJ Spooky Explores Remix Culture
  54. The History of Forgotten Phenomena: RIP Cliff Doerksen
  55. Zentangle: Pattern-Drawing as Meditation
  56. Tim Flach’s Extraordinary Dog Portraits
  57. Ralph Ginzburg’s fact: , Vintage Wikileaks?
  58. PICKED: The Solar System at Your Fingertips
  59. Wreck This Box: Keri Smith’s Activity Books for Grown-Ups
  60. Fabulous Furniture Made of Unusual Upcycled Objects
  61. Women of the World : An Arresting Global Exploration
  62. The Joy of Stats: Hans Rosling on Statistics as Storytelling
  63. Look at Life : The Swinging London of The 1960s

2010 396

December 2010

  1. Brain Pickings Redux 2010
  2. 7 Billion People in Kinetic Typography
  3. NatGeo’s Great Migrations: Nature’s Most Epic Journeys
  4. NYTimes Data Artist Jer Thorp Visualizes Brain Pickings
  5. A is for Armageddon: An Illustrated Guide to the Apocalypse
  6. On Conformity
  7. Rare: An Intimate Portrait of Extinction
  8. How To Pick The Shortest Line
  9. Susan Sontag: A Trifecta Remembrance
  10. Amy Sedaris’s Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People
  11. Return of the Dapper Men : Tim Gunn Meets Alice in Wonderland
  12. The Best Apps of 2010
  13. The Christmas Truce of 1914: A Heartening Story of Humanity in the Middle of War
  14. Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas
  15. Merry, Merry: To Be Disposed of Without Reserve
  16. James Burke’s Connections : A BBC History of Innovation
  17. PICKED: Moleskine Passions Wellness Journal
  18. Len Kendall Sketchnotes the Best of Brain Pickings 2010
  19. Walt Disney’s Man In Space: Retrofuturism from 1955
  20. Rare Photos of Jazz Icons by Herman Leonard
  21. 2010’s Best Long Reads: Science & Technology
  22. Christina Tsevis Illustrates the Best of Brain Pickings
  23. My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Modernist Fairy Tales
  24. Stack , a Curated Selection of Beautiful Magazines
  25. ABC NYC: The Language of New York’s Found Typography
  26. Tiffany Farrant Visualizes the Best of Brain Pickings
  27. The Best Children’s Books of 2010
  28. Unruly Alphabet: The Macabre, Anthropomorphic Lives of Letters
  29. Sam Potts Visualizes the Best of Brain Pickings 2010
  30. 2010’s Best Long Reads: Business
  31. Mad Scientist Alphabet Blocks
  32. Stefanie Posavec Visualizes The Best of Brain Pickings
  33. The Best Books of 2010: Art, Design & Photography
  34. The Alphabet Refracted Through Backlit Letters Shot on iPhone
  35. PICKED: IDEO Reimagines the Music Player
  36. The Best Books of 2010: Business, Life & Mind
  37. PICKED: Look at What the Light Did Now
  38. PICKED: Exit Through the Gift Shop Giveaway
  39. 2010’s Best Long Reads: Art, Design, Film & Music
  40. Walt & El Grupo: The Story of Disney’s Political Propaganda
  41. The Best Albums of 2010
  42. Not Your Mama’s Guidebook: The Zinester’s Guide to NYC
  43. Rainn Wilson on Overcoming Creative Blocks
  44. All in a Word: A Compendium of Linguistic Curiosities
  45. 3 Ways to Visualize the David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
  46. Dust Serenade: Interactive MIT Installation Honors Sound Science Pioneer
  47. Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
  48. How Music Works
  49. PICKED: Poetry Animations
  50. A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart
  51. Economy Map: Visualizing the Eco-Impact of Industry
  52. The Mind’s Eye: How We Use Vision to Understand the World
  53. A Creative Commons Christmas Carol
  54. Thought of You: Visual Poetry Meets Dance in 2D Animated Magic
  55. Helmut Newton’s SUMO: An Epic Retrospective
  56. The Snark Handbook, Insult Edition: Verbal Sparring Lessons from Literary Greats
  57. Polaroid Inventor Edwin Land on the 5,000 Steps to Success
  58. The First Forty Years of NPR: The Making of a Cultural Icon
  59. Hans Rosling for BBC: 200 Countries Over 200 Years in 4 Minutes
  60. Yoxi: A Creative Game for Social Change
  61. Stefan Sagmeister on Sustaining Creativity
  62. The Do’s and Don’ts of Photography
  63. HeyKiki: A Platform for Crowd-Accelerated Learning
  64. The Englishman who Posted Himself
  65. The Secret of Happiness: A TED Remix
  66. Historical Milestones As Famous Pop Songs

November 2010

  1. Locals Only: The Early Days of Skateboarding
  2. All Facts Considered: 276 Esoteric Facts from NPR’s Librarian
  3. One Hello World: Tuning the Human Condition
  4. Steve Shapiro’s Taxi Driver: Rare Photos of Cinema History
  5. Infinite City: A San Francisco Subcultural Atlas
  6. LoudSauce: Crowdfunded Advertising for Causes
  7. Launching the Brain Pickings Shoppe!
  8. Thank You.
  9. Philippe Halsman’s Iconic Jump Portraits
  10. Isarithmic History: 88 Years of Red-Blue Divide in 1 Minute
  11. Mad Men: The Illustrated World
  12. The Complete Metropolis: Fritz Lang’s 1927 Gem, Remastered
  13. Greatest of All Time: Remembering Muhammad Ali
  14. The Decline of Marriage and Rise of New Families
  15. PICKED: Goodbye Shanghai
  16. Coralie Bickford-Smith’s Book Covers for Penguin Classics
  17. Just a Few Cards: 9 Artists Reimagine the Holiday Card
  18. Paula Scher on Combinatorial Creativity
  19. Sounds of HIV: Music Made of AIDS Virus Nucleotides
  20. Gadget Sculptures: The Afterlife of Devices
  21. A Photographic History of Bromance, 1840-1918
  22. The Story of Eames Furniture
  23. Visualizing Enlightenment-Era Social Networks
  24. Alone: An Animated Lament
  25. Alphabets: A Miscellany of Letters by David Sacks
  26. Denis Dutton’s Provocative Darwinian Theory of Beauty
  27. Jay-Z’s Decoded : A Real-Life Rags-to-Riches Story
  28. Sterling’s Gold: A Fictional Mad Men Memoir
  29. Everyone Forever Now: Subcultural Storytelling
  30. Tree of Codes: A Literary Remix
  31. In The Dark: A Documentary about Rollerblading
  32. Andrew Zuckerman’s Powerful Portraits of Music Icons
  33. A Brief Visual History of Cookery
  34. Jane McGonigal on Gaming for Productivity
  35. Edible Landscapes: Miniature Vignettes Made from Food
  36. Wabi Sabi: An Unusual Children’s Book Based on the Japanese Philosophy of Finding Beauty in Imperfection and Impermanence
  37. East + West + Gershwin: Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang Perform Rhapsody In Blue
  38. Hide/Seek: Portraits of Gender Identity and Sexual Difference in Art
  39. A Short Illustrated History of Nearly Everything
  40. BBC’s Sherlock: Modernization Done Right
  41. Mondo Cane (1962): The Original Shocumentary
  42. Baraka: A Breathtaking Journey to 24 Countries on 70mm Film
  43. The Music Animation Machine
  44. The Cassiopeia Project: Free Science Education Online
  45. Brené Brown on the Building Blocks of Wholeheartedness
  46. Designing Media: Lessons from Today’s Greatest Media Innovators
  47. William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible
  48. Dancing Under The Gallows: The Story of Alice, the World’s Oldest Holocaust Survivor
  49. PICKED: Influencers
  50. 5 Essential Books and Talks on the Psychology of Choice
  51. PICKED: Faucet Face
  52. How to Fold a Newspaper Sheet Hat
  53. The Power of Photojournalism
  54. Auto Focus: A Brief History of Contemporary Self-Portraiture
  55. An Awesome Book of Thanks! Dallas Clayton Celebrates Gratitude
  56. Smigly: Jazzy Tales of Misfortune
  57. The Holstee Manifesto: Making The Life You Want To Live
  58. Bark: An Intimate Look at the World’s Trees
  59. SAVED: Upcycling Through Design and Storytelling
  60. Dieter Rams’ Principles of Good Design
  61. Portraits of the Mind: A Brief History of Visualizing the Brain
  62. Marvelous Movember

October 2010

  1. Interactive Quixote: A Vision for the Future of Dead Manuscripts
  2. BBC’s John Lennon Tribute Rap
  3. KOMAZA: Fighting Poverty Through “Microforestry”
  4. Beethoven Reimagined as Jazz
  5. American Software: The Titans of Silicon Valley in 8-Bit Animation
  6. Oil + Water: Posters Printed with Oil from The Gulf
  7. PICKED: Verbal + Yoon Cover The Runaways
  8. PICKED: We All Good People
  9. Words of the World: The Secret Stories of Words
  10. PICKED: Who’s Afraid of the Watersprite
  11. Everything Explained Through Flowcharts
  12. RxArt: Healing Children Through Contemporary Art
  13. PICKED: Neighbor Dining
  14. On Gratitude: 51 Micro-Essays on Life’s Blessings
  15. The School of Life
  16. Wanderlust: Four Minutes of Cinematic Aliveness
  17. Obsolete Occupations: 7 Cinematic Short Films
  18. The Threadless Story: A Tale of Creative Entrepreneurship
  19. Sir Ken Robinson on Creativity and Changing Educational Paradigms
  20. Project Interaction: Design as an Education Curriculum
  21. Frames of Reference: Clever Vintage Film Makes Physics Fun
  22. Street Artist JR Wins 2011 TED Prize
  23. Search for the Obvious: A Homage to Everyday Objects
  24. MakerLegoBot: A 3D LEGO Meta-Printer
  25. I Wonder: Marian Bantjes Explores Joy Through Typography
  26. projeqt: A Creative Storytelling Platform
  27. RIP Benoît Mandelbrot: Remembering The Father of Fractals
  28. How Do I Explain It To My Parents: Abstract Artists on the Art
  29. A Lab of My Own: Coming Out In Science
  30. Trespass: A Brief History of Uncommissioned Street Art
  31. Blog Action Day 2010: Water
  32. And The Pursuit of Happiness: Maira Kalman Illustrates Democracy
  33. Remote Palette: Warhol 2.0
  34. Jet Age: Entrepreneurship Lessons From The Sky
  35. The Procrastinators
  36. Nina Paley: All Creative Work Is Derivative
  37. 60-Second Lectures: A Tapas Bar of Academic Insight
  38. Charles & Ray Eames’ Powers of Ten Flipbook
  39. Cosmic Discoveries: The Universe in Your Pocket
  40. Fifty People, One Question
  41. Nowhere Boy: John Lennon’s Early Life
  42. Five Visualizations to Grasp the Scale of the Universe
  43. Moleskine + Pac-Man = Gold
  44. What Is Procrastination: 5 Perspectives
  45. Graffiti Love Letter to Syracuse
  46. Schlimazeltov! A Short Film About Luck in Jewish Culture
  47. A Rare Look at Haiti: Maya Deren’s Divine Horsemen
  48. PICKED: Hello Rewind
  49. Conversations with Mr. Lois
  50. Inside The Kelly Writers House Audio Archives
  51. BBC’s 60-Second Ideas to Improve the World
  52. PICKED: Sintel , a Global Collaborative Animated Film
  53. FORM+CODE: Eye & Brain Candy for the Digital Age
  54. Visualizing.org: A Data Visualization Portal
  55. PICKED: Thirty Conversations on Design, 2010 Edition
  56. Mood Collection: Cinematic Anthropology of Urban Tenderness
  57. AuroraMAX : Watch The Aurora Borealis Live
  58. Literary Action Figures
  59. 7 Image Search Tools That Will Change Your Life

September 2010

  1. Modern Women: MoMA Celebrates Women in Art
  2. PICKED: TurningArt, Netflix for Art
  3. The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol
  4. Michele Banks’ Biological Watercolors
  5. Journalism in the Age of Data: A Film
  6. PICKED: Miracles – 20 Years of Pop in One Mashup
  7. Junk Drawers: Portraits of People Through Their Trinkets
  8. 5 Cross-Disciplinary Cookbooks
  9. Mapping European Stereotypes
  10. Bad News: A Media Fiction
  11. BBC on Science vs. Religion: The End of God?
  12. The Paris Review Archival Interviews: 10 Favorite Quotes
  13. Through the Eyes of the Vikings: The Aerial Arctic
  14. Steven Johnson on Where Good Ideas Come From
  15. PICKED: Maximum Balloon
  16. Global Collaborative Film: life.turns.
  17. PICKED: The Girl Effect, The Sequel
  18. PICKED: Dictaphone Parcel Eavesdrops on the World
  19. 13 Words: Lemony Snicket + Maira Kalman
  20. The Phantom Time Hypothesis, Visualized
  21. PICKED: IDEO Imagines The Future of Books
  22. A More Open Place: Photographing Privacy
  23. Everything is a Remix
  24. The Talking Tree: Vegetation Does Social Media
  25. Opening Lines: How Famous Creators Got Their Start
  26. The Bag Monster
  27. Capitalism Five Ways, Animated
  28. Street Knowledge: An Encyclopedia of Street Art
  29. Bees, Bees, Bees: In Praise of an Extraordinary Creature
  30. Art in the Age of Commerce: The Mona Lisa Curse
  31. The Raveonettes Cover The Stone Roses
  32. What Does It Mean to Be Human?
  33. Need to Want Less: Modern Philosophy via Graphic Design
  34. ThoughtBubbler: Visual Storytelling for What Matters
  35. SwiftRiver: Intelligence for the Information Age
  36. The Exquisite Book: 100 Artists Play a Collaborative Game

August 2010

  1. Fault Line Living: The World’s Most Dangerous Landscapes to Live
  2. 7 Ways to Have More by Owning Less
  3. it’s a sickness: The Obsession Network
  4. Seaswarm: MIT’s Fleet of Oil Spill Cleaning Robots
  5. The Beast File: Infographic Storytelling
  6. News21: Next-Gen Storytelling for the Multimedia Age
  7. Everyone’s Favorite Guessing Game: 7 Must-See What’s My Line Episodes
  8. CoolClimate: Addressing Climate Change Through Art
  9. Save the Words: Linguistic Intervention
  10. 4Food: Dejunking Fast Food for the Digital Age
  11. Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin in the Style of The Beach Boys
  12. How To Be Alone
  13. On Words
  14. HAPPY: A Documentary
  15. Around the World in 80 Diets: Portraits of What People Across the Globe Eat in an Average Day
  16. More Shoes: A 5,000-Kilometer Dream Pursuit
  17. 5 ½ Werner Herzog Gems
  18. String Portraits: Vintage Photographs of Young People Learning Mathematics via One Visionary Educator’s Playful Hands-on Method
  19. Animation Spotlight: The Films of Joaquin Baldwin
  20. One Designer, Two Designer: Vintage Australian Animation
  21. OpenIDEO: Collaborative Design for Social Good
  22. These Are Their Stories: Art Based on Law & Order

July 2010

  1. 13 Most Beautiful: Songs For Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests
  2. Garmz: Goodbye Fashion Industry, Hello Designers
  3. The Geometry of Pasta: A Minimalist Design Cookbook
  4. Mad Men on Wheels: Vintage Car Ads
  5. Peace Through Music: The Voice Project
  6. Paola Antonelli on Design & Innovation
  7. Dark Night of the Soul
  8. Masters of Photography: The Story of Whisky Casks
  9. Facadeprinter: Graffiti Meets Paintball
  10. 7 Must-Read Books by TED Global Speakers
  11. Postcards to Alphaville: A Love Letter to Film
  12. Dreaming of Lucid Living: Enchanted Entertainment
  13. Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot, Animated
  14. Opening Up the Hitchcock and Lang Archives
  15. Winners of IDEO’s Living Climate Change Challenge
  16. The War Prayer: Mark Twain on War and Morality, Animated
  17. Life in a Day: Google Crowdsources Humanity
  18. 7 Quirky & Creative Playing Card Deck Designs
  19. Blu is Back: The Story of Evolution, Told in Graffiti
  20. Versions: The Purpose and Repurposing of Images
  21. We’re Getting On: The Book That Grows Trees
  22. Razzle Dazzle: The Fabrication of Fame

June 2010

  1. Art Pickings: Behold Our Brand New Art Portal
  2. Waiting for “Superman”: Education by the Numbers
  3. Visualizing Divisions and Bridges in Cyberspace
  4. Summer Reading: 5 Curated Recommendations
  5. 5 Seminal Vintage Russian Animation Short Films
  6. Office Supply Art: Magical Mosaics Made of Unusual Objects
  7. Press Pause Play: The Evolving Creative Landscape
  8. Information Pioneers: The Unsung Heroes of the Information Age
  9. One Day On Earth: A Timecapsule of Humanity
  10. Drainspotting: Japan’s Unique Visual Subculture
  11. A Love Letter to New York, in HD
  12. The Genius of Design: A BBC Design Retrospective
  13. The Power of Art: From Rembrandt to Rothko
  14. This Is Your Brain on Love
  15. CitID: A (Type)face for Every City in the World
  16. Bike Culture: A Roundup
  17. 5 (More) Places to Buy (and Sell) Affordable Art
  18. Color as Data: Visualizing Color Composition
  19. Historypin: Past Meets Present in Street View
  20. The Robin Hood Tax Project
  21. Books for Dad: 7 Esoteric Father’s Day Gift Ideas
  22. What Everyday Objects Tell Us About the Universe

May 2010

  1. An Odyssey Through Asian Art & Art History
  2. Spam as Art
  3. From Back Home: Photo- Parallels from Sweden
  4. LAxNYC: Creative Takes on a Cross-Country Road Trip
  5. Strange Sounds: 7 Experimental Projects Making Music from Natural Elements
  6. The Creators Project
  7. Music Philosophy: Famous Lyrics as Typographic Art
  8. Remix Culture Spotlight: Walking on Eggshells
  9. 5 Classic Children’s Books with Timeless Philosophy for Grown-Ups
  10. The Bookshelf Rethought, Part 3
  11. Ayn Rand on Love as a Business Deal: The 1959 Interview
  12. Sorted Books: The Library as a Standup Comedian
  13. The Future of First-Response Environments
  14. Market Maketh Man: Distortions of Democracy
  15. Current: A News Project | ITP Spring Show Highlights
  16. Data Flow, The Sequel
  17. Robin of Shoreditch: The 100 Brands Project
  18. Google Chrome Speed Tests
  19. Leonard Bernstein and the Anatomy of Music
  20. Ben Simon’s Gaga Guitars
  21. The Brain Pickings 500

April 2010

  1. Urban Hackscapes: Augmented Reality 1.0
  2. Photographer Jason Hawkes’ London At Night
  3. See Better to Learn Better: Glasses Reinvented
  4. The Art of Money
  5. Subway Etiquette Posters: New York, Toronto, Tokyo
  6. The Beauty of Maps: Seeing Art in Cartography
  7. Earth Day the TED Way
  8. Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia
  9. Follow The Money: Visualizing the Structure of Large-Scale Communities
  10. Sparrow Songs: Twelve Films in Twelve Months
  11. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
  12. Cartograms: Making a Point with Distorted Maps
  13. The 2020 Project: Visions of the Connected Future
  14. Leave Your Sleep: Natalie Merchant Sets Victorian Children’s Poetry to Song
  15. Art for the Age of Transparency: BBC DataArt
  16. The Art of Book Sculpture
  17. The Works Progress Administration: Timeless Lessons on Design and Government from the 1930s
  18. You’re a Horrible Person, But I Like You
  19. The Johnny Cash Project: Global Collaborative Storytelling
  20. Graffiti Love Letter: An Ode to the City
  21. Japan: The Strange Country
  22. The Art of Conversation: London – Berlin

March 2010

  1. Stolen Moments: Secret Glimpses of Neighbors’ Lives
  2. Retro Revival: Vintage Posters for Modern Movies
  3. Magazines: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
  4. Design Makeovers of Mundane Communication Items
  5. Love Me: The Cross-Cultural Manufacturing of Beauty
  6. AnthroPosts: Analog Post-It Found Art, Digitized
  7. The Enchanted Drawing: Blackton’s Early Animation
  8. World Water Day: 3 Smart Projects to Celebrate It
  9. Infoviz Education: Animated Visualizations for Kids
  10. A Documentarian Collage of Humanity: 8 Billion Lives
  11. The Apology Line
  12. Bruce Gilden on the Other Side of The Camera
  13. Uncovered Gem: Marshall McLuhan’s Global Village
  14. Beyond the Business Card: Three Alternative Tools
  15. Srikumar Rao on Hard-Wiring Happiness
  16. Crowdfunding for Creativity
  17. Invisible Children + La Blogotheque + You
  18. Popular Science, Digitized
  19. Before OK Go: The History of Rube Goldberg Machines
  20. Blog-Turned-Book Success Stories: Part Two
  21. Wake Your Inner 8-Year- Old: Errandboy Interview
  22. Beyond the Dunbar Number: Picking Dunbar’s Brain
  23. Beyond Burton: Art Inspired by Alice In Wonderland

February 2010

  1. Animation Spotlight: I AM
  2. Kopernik: Crowdfunding World-Changing Design
  3. The Bookshelf Rethought: 5 More Innovative Designs
  4. The Art of Protest
  5. Blog-Turned-Book Success Stories: Part One
  6. Duelity: Earth’s Story, Split Down the Middle
  7. HBO City: Artisanal Animation Magic Circa 1983
  8. CreativeAllies: Artist, Meet Artist
  9. 6 Six Places to Find Affordable Art
  10. Brain-picking CurrentTV’s Max Lugavere & Jason Silva
  11. Highlights from TED 2010: Day Two
  12. Highlights from TED 2010, Day One
  13. 10 More Great Cross-Disciplinary Conferences
  14. Analog Infoviz: Ward Shelley’s Hand-Painted Visualizations
  15. Creative Derivatives of the London Tube Map
  16. Project Documerica: A Portrait of the 1970s Environmental Movement
  17. Strange Worlds: Miniature Condiment Landscapes
  18. Wayfinding in Wittgenstein’s World: 88 Constellations
  19. Fresh Stuff from Michel Gondry
  20. How the Dutch Do Title Sequences
  21. The Century of the Self: A Fascinating BBC Documentary About the Rise of Consumerism and Democracy

January 2010

  1. Mythical Beasts & Modern Monsters
  2. The Corners Project
  3. Live Now: In-the-Moment Inspiration
  4. One Cubic Foot of Life
  5. Philosophical Timecapsule of Today: Wisdom
  6. Phylomon: The Game of Life
  7. The School of Continuing Education
  8. The Red Book: When Carl Jung Lost and Found His Soul
  9. Charting The Beatles
  10. Pencils of Promise: Grassroots School-Building
  11. Chart Wars: The Steering Power of Data Visualization
  12. The Transformative Power of Personal Projects
  13. Curation with a Conscience: The Working Proof
  14. FaceSense: Mind-reading from MIT
  15. Far Out: The Real Space Odyssey
  16. Music-Inspired Art: The Hype Machine Zeitgeist
  17. Death by Design
  18. 100 Places to Remember
  19. Steve Jobs on Working with Legendary Designer Paul Rand
  20. Actions Speak Loudest

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December 2009

  1. Brain Pickings Redux: Best of 2009
  2. Tom Waits Reads “The Laughing Heart” by Charles Bukowski
  3. The Happiness Project: Gretchen Rubin Spends a Year in Pursuit
  4. The Moment Jars
  5. Music Meets Philosophy: The Happiness Project
  6. Gift Guide Part 3: Free
  7. Mobile Mobile: The Christmas Tree Retought
  8. A Stop-Motion Treat from BBC Radio 1
  9. DoGooder: Do Nothing, Change Everything
  10. Uncovered Gem: Bono Reads Bukowski’s “Roll The Dice”
  11. The Bookshelf Rethought: 5 Innovative Designs
  12. The Subjectivity of Science, Crowdsourced
  13. The Story of Cap & Trade
  14. The Pink and Blue Projects: Exploring the Genderization of Color
  15. Moving Minimalism: Solitary Confinement
  16. Gift Guide: Kids & The Eternal Kid
  17. The Interpretation
  18. Interview with Dava Viz Star Pedro Monteiro
  19. Gift Guide Part One: Books
  20. Top 10 Contemporary Cross-Disciplinary Conferences
  21. We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion
  22. The History of Jazz, Animated in Shadow Art
  23. Alphabet Books Rethought
  24. World AIDS Day Spotlight: Interview with Travis McCoy

November 2009

  1. The Wall In My Head: Words & Art from the Fall of the Iron Curtain
  2. Carbon Sucker: CR5
  3. Interview with Illustrator Christina Tsevis
  4. The Jazz Loft Project
  5. Buy Nothing: No, Really, It’s For Sale
  6. Super-Smart Learning
  7. Tim Burton’s MoMA Retrospective
  8. Nonsequential Narratives: Hypertextual Books
  9. Social Justice with a Twist: Ctrl.Alt.Shift
  10. Kubrick’s Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made
  11. Ed Emberley’s Make a World: The Film
  12. A Metaphor for Creativity: 5 Shapes, 3520 Artworks
  13. Carl Sagan + Sigur Rós
  14. Physical Data Art by Willem Besselink
  15. The Visual Miscellaneum
  16. Introducing the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
  17. Cassette From My Ex: The Book
  18. Dan Witz’s Dark Doings
  19. Troika Moonshine 300
  20. Play Me, I’m Yours: Reclaiming Public Space
  21. The Botany of Desire: Michael Pollan Explores Big Agriculture
  22. Thirty Conversations on Design
  23. Jonathan Harris: World Building in a Crazy World
  24. Esoteric Creativity: Michael Paukner’s Visualizations
  25. Best Albums of October

October 2009

  1. Retro Revival: Man as Industrial Palace
  2. East Meets West: An Infographic Portrait
  3. Strange Maps: The Book
  4. Interview with Mary Tomer, Brains Behind Mrs-O.org
  5. The Real Godfather: Il Divo
  6. Art of the Toilet Paper Roll
  7. Vintage Album Covers
  8. The Museum of Everything
  9. Art, Science, Food: Kevin Van Aelst
  10. One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur
  11. Smells Like Modern Art: Six Scents Series Two
  12. Experimental Cartography: The Map as Art
  13. Instant Classic: Whole Earth Discipline
  14. Urban Storytelling: Hitotoki
  15. SnagFilms: Democratizing Documentaries
  16. Journalism Redefined: The Photographer
  17. Color and the Brain: Beau Lotto’s Optical Illusions
  18. Last Day to Vote for Google’s Project 10^100
  19. Crowdsourcing 2010: Behind the3six5 Project
  20. Indie Music Meets Indie Film: First Days of Spring
  21. Return of the Pooh
  22. Best Albums of August & September 2009
  23. 30 Years of Innovation: Happy Birthday, ITP

September 2009

  1. Responsive Shapes: Minivegas Digital Sculptures
  2. The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind: Innovation Against All Odds
  3. Data Posters: FlowingPrints
  4. Pictorial Webster’s: A Visual Dictionary of Victorian Curiosities
  5. Creativity for Sustainability: Glove Love
  6. Short Film Spotlight: Greenpeace Global Voices
  7. New Traditional: Japanese Figurines
  8. Art Meets Science: They Might Be Giants’ Creative Education
  9. Seafood Sexytime: Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno 3
  10. Illustartion Spotlight: Every Person In New York
  11. The Art of Pixar Short Films
  12. Biology-Inspired Art
  13. Film Spotlight: GLASS
  14. Book Spotlight: Design Revolution
  15. Found, Photographed, Imagined: Habitat Machines
  16. Robots In Our Image
  17. Valentino: The Last Emperor
  18. Graphic Novel Granddaddy: Lynd Ward’s Woodcuts
  19. Visualization of Global Bottled Water Consumption
  20. Google Groupies Galore: Goollery
  21. The Darwin Song Project
  22. Symbol Signs: Helvetica Man and Beyond
  23. Kidrobot QR Scavenger Hunt

August 2009

  1. Film Spotlight: BALIBO
  2. Fun For Good: The Indie Rock Coloring Book
  3. The Little Album That Could
  4. The Typophile Film Festival
  5. AskNature: The Biomimicry Design Portal
  6. The Ancient Book of Sex and Science
  7. Film Spotlight: Lemonade
  8. Music Spotlight: This Must Be The Place
  9. Brazil Goes Green by Doing The Yellow
  10. Poetry On The Road’s VisualPoetry
  11. Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life
  12. Remastered, Reinvented, Reimagined: Record Club
  13. Data Visualization Spotlight: In The Air
  14. Collaborative Creation: PSST!
  15. Design-Off: Top 3 Live Design Competitions
  16. Subway Personality: The MBTI Map
  17. Notes & Neurons: Music, Emotion and the Brain
  18. The Mother of All Demos
  19. Documentary Spotlight: Waterlife
  20. Animation Spotlight: The Falcon
  21. The Future of Data Tags: Bokodes

July 2009

  1. Building Rome in a Day: Crowdsourced 3D Cities
  2. World Beats: CitySounds.fm
  3. Digital Voyeurism: Question Suggestions
  4. Exclusive Interview with Designer Twan Verdonck
  5. BBC vs. MTV: Poetry Season
  6. TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 4
  7. TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 3
  8. TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 2
  9. TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 1
  10. Behind the Scenes of TED
  11. Animation Spotlight: Peripetics
  12. Neighborhood Design Watch: Cardon Copy
  13. Technofuturism: La Vitrine
  14. Retrospective on Futurism: N55
  15. Digital Choreography: Synchronous Objects
  16. Animation Spotlight: Invent
  17. Photography Spotlight: Things
  18. Mapping Big Ideas: BIGVIZ
  19. Cinematic Enlightenment: The Auteurs Project
  20. Focus on Focus: Rapt
  21. Illustration Spotlight: Plan 9.001
  22. Revolutionary Fringe-Think: Sputnik Observatory
  23. The Human Face, Up Close and Personal

June 2009

  1. The Open_Sailing Project
  2. Data Visualization: The Colors of Democracy
  3. More Than Form: Design for Disability
  4. 5:1 Student Design Show
  5. Street Art: From All Sides & Five Continents
  6. New Music Spotlight: Regina Spektor “Far”
  7. Brain Pickings Original: Typography of the SFMoMA
  8. Short Film Spotlight: Synesthesia
  9. Independent Film Spotlight: Future Weather
  10. Clay Shirky on Social Media, News and the Democratic Process
  11. Wego Motel: Soap
  12. Animation Spotlight: The Chimney Sweep
  13. Philanthropy Spotlight: 100 Girls Back to School
  14. Futility Paints Utility: Wikipedia Reproduced
  15. Wordnik: The Dictionary Redefined
  16. In-Formed: Physical Objects as Data Visualization
  17. Ordering The Chaos: The Internet Mapping Project
  18. RiP: A Remix Manifesto
  19. Emotional Cartography: Technologies of the Self
  20. Exclusive Interview with Society6’s Justin Wills
  21. Kickstarter: Crowdsourced Culture-Funding
  22. Labuat: Soy Tu Aire

May 2009

  1. Multimedia Spotlight: Vocal Improvisation Animated
  2. The Consequences of… Jacob Livengood
  3. Pick One: Hipsters Take on Culture, By Way of Helvetica
  4. Heart of a City: BioMapping
  5. ComplexCity: Visualizing the Hidden Patterns of Urbanity
  6. Artist Spotlight: Stephan Zirwes Aerial Photography
  7. Behind the Scenes of Project N.A.S.A.
  8. Into Post-Digital Creative Culture: OFFF 2009
  9. Artist Spotlight: Zee Avi
  10. Beautiful Connections: The Art of Conversation
  11. Life, Visually Dissected
  12. Animation Spotlight: Forget
  13. Hyper-Marketing Meets Meta-Art: Tate Tracks
  14. What NASA Can Learn from X Prize (And Vise Versa)
  15. We Got Time: Hand-Illustration Meets In-Camera Animation Magic
  16. Curating Twitter: Three Hand-Picked Must-Follows
  17. Writing Without Words: Visualizing Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road”
  18. Running The Numbers: Oceanographic Visualization
  19. (R)evolutionary Record: The Darwin Song Project
  20. Collaborative Cinema: The Hunt for Gollum
  21. The Sale of Manhattan: A Saul Bass Gem Circa 1962

April 2009

  1. Photographic Time Machine
  2. Pure Process: Picking the Creative Brain
  3. A Typographic Visualization of Every TED Talk, Ever
  4. Monday Music Muse: Haley Bonar
  5. Truth, Beauty, Math and Crocheting
  6. Film Spotlight: Paper Heart
  7. Earth Day The Reel Way
  8. The Housing Crisis in 3D
  9. Monday Music Muse: Brain-Picking Ghost Away
  10. As Seen On Earth: The Infinite Photograph
  11. Lynching Moby
  12. Exactitudes: Cross-Cultural Photo-Anthropology Explores the Myth of Unique Identity
  13. Creative Pause: Todd St. John & HunterGatherer
  14. Monday Music Muse: Anathallo
  15. LBB + OLPC = GOOD
  16. Paper Whimsy: Top 5 Artists
  17. Bicycle Built for 2,000
  18. The MacGuffin Library
  19. Monday Music Muse: The Botticellis
  20. Sustainable Agriculture: Top 5 Innovation Efforts
  21. 20 Steps to Sustainable Cities
  22. Photography Spotlight: The 50 States Project

March 2009

  1. Sound Meets Image: Visual Tributes to Music
  2. Monday Music Muse: Kat Edmonson
  3. Earth Hour 2009
  4. The Library Rethought
  5. Meta-Vinyl Creativity
  6. Monday Music Muse: Lisa Hannigan
  7. Animation Gem: Brothers Grimm Meet Röyksopp
  8. The Creative (Re)Touch
  9. How Happiness Happens
  10. Product Design Spotlight: The Little Bottle That Could
  11. Monday Music Muse: Dan Auerbach
  12. The World of 100: Our Global Village
  13. Accidents: The Abstract Art of Data Visualization Goofs
  14. Interview with Chunnel.TV Founder Matthew Berman
  15. Hungry Planet: How The World Eats, or Doesn’t
  16. The New Orchestra: Symphonic Innovation Around the World
  17. Transform: The Journey to Creative Contentment
  18. Sign of The Times: Data Visualization Heaven
  19. The Secret Lives of Secret Places
  20. The Art of Identity
  21. Monday Music Muse: Blame Ringo

February 2009

  1. Repurposed Art: The Second Life of Cardboard
  2. Similarities: Because It’s All Been Done
  3. GOOD Magazine: The Real Stimulus Package
  4. Geek Tuesday: Data Immersion Gone Wild
  5. Monday Music Muse: First Aid Kit
  6. TEDify: Ideas Worth Connecting
  7. Spotlight: Cherri Wood
  8. Vintage Design: Innovation Lessons from the Past
  9. Monday Music Muse: Peter Buffett
  10. Revisiting the Retail Experience: BBlessing
  11. Art of The Cover: Book Cover Design Inspiration
  12. Perroquet: Photography, Science, Slow-Motion Beauty
  13. Monday Music Muse: Keren Ann
  14. TED 2009 Highlights: Day 2
  15. TED 2009 Highlights: Day 1
  16. Design, Life, Digital: Best of DLD 2009
  17. Show & Tell: A Century of Illustrated Letters
  18. Monday Music Muse: Matt and Kim

January 2009

  1. Duper Bowl: Alternative Super Bowl Logos
  2. Lights, Camera, Ticket
  3. Artist Spotlight: Volkan Ergen
  4. Best of Bike Culture: Innovation Top 5
  5. Monday Music Muse: Rachael Cantu
  6. Animation Spotlight: Big Buck Bunny
  7. Show & Tell: Mapping Obama’s Speech
  8. Famous Designers on Design: 5 Beautiful Book Covers
  9. Monday Music Muse: The Midnight Show
  10. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Word-of-Mouths
  11. Vintage Russian Ads
  12. The Story of Stuff
  13. Monday Music Muse: Lionel Neykov
  14. Illustration Showcase: 5 Artists to Watch
  15. The Sky in Motion: 7,000 NASA Images in a Mesmerizing Timelapse
  16. Uncovered Gem of the Week: Tarsem’s The Fall
  17. Coming to a Best-of-2009 List Near You
  18. Objectified: Dissecting Design
  19. Birth of an Idea: The Ride
  20. Holiday Economy Examined

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