2012
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December 2012
- The Best of Brain Pickings 2012
- Trailblazing Graphic Designer Paula Scher on Creativity
- British vs. American Politics in Minimalist Vintage Infographics
- The Strange Story of William Faulkner’s Only Children’s Book
- Richard Dawkins on Evidence in Science, Life and Love: A Letter to His 10-Year-Old Daughter
- 10½ Favorite Albums of 2012
- Chuck Close on Creativity, Work Ethic, and Problem-Solving vs. Problem-Creating
- How People Live In The Suburbs: A Vintage Illustrated Gem
- Charles Olson Reads “Maximus, to Himself”: A Rare 1963 Recording
- The Best Books of 2012: Your 10 Overall Favorites
- Vintage Holiday Cover Designs for Radio Times Magazine
- Eleanor Roosevelt’s Little-Known Children’s Book About Christmas and Hope Amid Humanity’s Darkest Hour
- 100 Diagrams That Changed the World
- The Best Music Books of 2012
- How to Write Letters: A 19th-Century Guide to the Lost Art of Epistolary Etiquette
- Illustrated Alphabetic Drop Cap Covers of Literary Classics by Jessica Hische
- Simone de Beauvoir on Vitality, the Measure of Intelligence, and What Freedom Really Means
- How to Give a Great Presentation: Timeless Advice from a Legendary Adman, 1981
- In Defense of the Fluid Self: Why Anaïs Nin Turned Down a Harper’s Bazaar Profile
- All the 2012 Best-of Reading Lists, Together at Last
- The Little Golden Book of Words: A Rare Illustrated Gem from 1948
- Mark Twain on Intelligence vs. Morality
- The Overview Effect and the Psychology of Cosmic Awe
- 5½ Favorite Food Books of 2012
- Rent Is Too Damn High, Vonnegut Edition: The Beloved Author’s Housing Woes
- The Best Graphic Novels and Graphic Nonfiction of 2012
- How to Avoid Work: A 1949 Guide to Doing What You Love
- Adrienne Rich on Love, Loss, Public vs. Private Happiness, and the Creative Process
- The Fine Art of Italian Hand Gestures: A Vintage Visual Dictionary by Bruno Munari
- Remembering the Godfather of World Music: Ravi Shankar + Philip Glass, 1990
- More Than Human: Tim Flach’s Striking Portraits of Animals
- The Science of Our Optimism Bias and the Life-Cycle of Happiness
- Montaigne on Death and the Art of Living
- Amelia Earhart on Marriage
- Song Reader: Beck Revives the Romance of Sheet Music with 26 Illustrated Songs
- A Secret Illustrated History of Coffee, Coca, and Cola
- Little Big Books: The Secrets of Great Children’s Book Illustration
- Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot, Animated in Motion Graphics
- The Best History Books of 2012
- The Best Illustrated Children’s Books and Picture Books of 2012
- Henry Miller on Creative Death
- Introducing Art Pickings: A Pop-Up Gallery in Partnership with 20×200
- What’s a Dog For: A Meditation on Love, Loss, and the Art of Presence
- Moleskine Detour: Inside Beloved Creative Icons’ Notebooks
- Adrienne Rich’s 1968 Poem “Gabriel” Read by Tom O’Bedlam
- An ABZ of Love: Kurt Vonnegut’s Favorite Vintage Danish Illustrated Guide to Sexuality
- The Age of Outrospection: Philosopher Roman Krznaric on Empathy and Social Change
- Susan Sontag on Moral Courage and the Power of Principled Resistance to Injustice
- How To Sing: A 1902 Illustrated Guide from the Great German Opera Singer Lilli Lehmann
- Does the Universe Have a Purpose? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Animated
- The 10 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2012
- Anaïs Nin on Love, Hand-Lettered by Debbie Millman
- Berenice Abbott’s Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photographs of Scientific Phenomena
- Joseph Conrad on Writing and the Role of the Artist
November 2012
- Susan Sontag on Art: Illustrated Diary Excerpts
- Anatomical Flap-Up Illustrations from 1901 Adapted as Animated GIFs
- Henry Miller on Writing and Life
- Stendhal on the Seven Stages of Romance and Why We Fall Out of Love: Timeless Wisdom from 1822
- A Visual History of Nobel Prizes and Notable Laureates, 1901-2012
- Emotional Anatomy: Stunning Vintage Illustrations of Somatic Consciousness
- Maira Kalman on Art and the Power of Not Thinking
- When Babbage and Dickens Waged a War on Noise
- The Best Design Books of 2012
- The Science of Your Brain on Alcohol, Animated
- Natural Histories: 500 Years of Rare Scientific Illustrations from the American Museum of Natural History Archives
- The Best Art Books of 2012
- Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories and Why Uncertainty Is the Crucible of Creativity
- Imagination Illustrated: Muppets Creator Jim Henson’s Never-Before-Seen Journals and Sketches
- Susan Sontag’s List of Beliefs at Age 14 vs. Age 24
- The R&D Lab of Creativity: Inside the Sketchbooks of Beloved Illustrators and Designers
- F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 13 Uses for Turkey Leftovers
- Fiona Apple’s Stirring Handwritten Letter About Her Dying Dog
- Bruno Munari on Design as a Bridge Between Art and Life
- Marilyn Monroe’s Turkey Recipe
- Dutch Illustrator Rop Van Mierlo’s Charming Rorschach-Like Wash Paintings of Wild Animals
- A Visual Timeline of the Future Based on Famous Fiction
- The Daily Routines of Great Writers
- Tiny Collaborative Stories
- Geometrical Psychology: Mathematical Models of Consciousness by the 19th-Century Psychologist Benjamin Betts
- Joan Didion on Keeping a Notebook
- Andrew Zuckerman’s Extraordinary Portraits of Flowers
- The Best Science Books of 2012
- Eleanor Roosevelt on Happiness, Conformity, and Integrity
- How Thomas Jefferson Pioneered the Tomato, Championed Urban Farming, and Taught Americans to Make Coffee
- Are We Nearing the Maximum Capacity of the Human Brain?
- Kurt Vonnegut: You’re Allowed To Be In Love Three Times In Your Life
- What Makes a Great City: A General Theory of Walkability
- The Birth of Sound: Why the Big Bang Was Actually Silent
- John Keats’s Porridge: The Favorite Recipes of Beloved Poets
- An Illustrated Vintage Bicycle Safety Manual circa 1969
- Illustrated Bookshelves of Famous Artists’ and Writers’ Favorite Books
- An Animated Open Letter to President Obama on the State of Science Education
- Britain vs. America in Minimalist Vintage Infographics
- Philosopher Judith Butler on Doubting Love
- Changing New York: Berenice Abbott’s Stunning Black-and-White Photos from the 1930s
- A Short Poem from Kurt Vonnegut
- What Will Survive of Us Is Love: Helen Dunmore’s 9 Rules of Writing
- Philip Pullman Reimagines the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
- Anaïs Nin on Embracing the Unfamiliar
- The Science of “Intuition”
- The Machine That Made Us: Stephen Fry and the BBC Explore Gutenberg’s Legacy
- The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs
- Henry Miller on Art, War, and the Future of Humanity
- The Nature of the Fun: David Foster Wallace on Why Writers Write
- The Half-Life of Facts: Dissecting the Predictable Patterns of How Knowledge Grows
- The Beatles Perform Shakespeare in Color, 1964
- Scientists and Philosophers Answer Kids’ Most Pressing Questions About How the World Works
- Building Stories: Cartoonist Chris Ware Explores the Architecture of Being Human
- Kurt Vonnegut’s Daily Routine
- How the Gutenberg Press Embodies Combinatorial Creativity
- The Cats of Copenhagen: Delightful Recently Discovered Children’s Story by James Joyce
- Stunning Vintage Illustrations of Don Quixote by Spanish Graphic Design Pioneer Roc Riera Rojas
- Joy Williams on Why Writers Write
- Stunning Spanish Illustrations for The Communist Manifesto
- The Art of “Negative Capability”: Keats on Embracing Uncertainty and Celebrating the Mysterious
October 2012
- Francis Bacon on Beauty
- A Visual History of New York City’s Destruction in 200 Years of Fiction
- Alan Watts on Death, in a Beautiful Animated Short Film
- Grapefruit: Yoko Ono’s Poems, Drawings, and Instructions for Life
- Illusionist Derren Brown on the Psychology of Gullibility
- Mind and Cosmos: Philosopher Thomas Nagel’s Brave Critique of Scientific Reductionism
- Stunning Black & White Engravings by Ian Hugo from Anaïs Nin’s Hand-Printed Under a Glass Bell , 1944
- Sylvia Plath Reads “A Birthday Present”: A Rare 1962 Recording
- The Etymology of “Hangover”
- Susan Sontag on the Creative Purpose of Boredom
- A History of Reading
- 100 Ideas That Changed Art
- Who Could It Be At This Hour? Lemony Snicket Asks All The Wrong Questions
- Anaïs Nin on Parenting, Character, and Personal Responsibility
- 100 Ideas That Changed Photography
- How to Be a Grouch: A Vintage Sesame Street Guide to Grumpiness
- How a Cat Boosts Your Creativity
- Faking It: A Visual History of 150 Years of Image Manipulation Before Photoshop
- Rework: Beck and Others Remix the Music of Philip Glass for the Iconic Composer’s 75th Birthday
- The Power of Introverts, Animated
- Dance Is Like Thought: Helen Keller Visits Martha Graham’s Studio
- The Science of Why We Blush, Animated
- David DeSteno on the Psychology of Compassion and Resilience
- So You Want To Be a Writer: Charles Bukowski’s No-Nonsense Antidote to the “Tortured Genius” Mythos of Creativity
- Vintage Indian Matchbook Labels
- Sailing to Byzantium: 13 Songs Based on the Poetry of W. B. Yeats
- One-Minute Animated Primers on Major Theories of Religion
- Displays of Affection: Iconic French Cartoonist Sempé Explores Relationship Clichés
- A Poetic Antidote to City Life
- Action Philosophers: Two Millennia of Philosophy in Comic Form
- No Decent Woman or Girl is Ever Seen Wearing Trousers: 12 Conduct Rules for Women from Rural Spain
- How the Invention of Walls Gave Rise to Eavesdropping
- Drawing from the City: Exquisite Indian Folk Art Meets Women’s Empowerment
- Happy Birthday, Chrysler Building Spire: The Story of an Epic Architectural Rivalry
- Why I Write: Joan Didion on Ego, Grammar, and the Creative Impulse
- Freud on Creative Writing and Daydreaming
- The Distance of the Moon: Beautiful Israeli Animated Film Based on the Italo Calvino Classic
- When Charles Darwin Hated Everybody
- Some of Today’s Hottest Scientific Mysteries, Illustrated by Some of Today’s Coolest Artists
- Do Not Despise Your Inner World: Advice on a Full Life from Philosopher Martha Nussbaum
- The Science of Lucid Dreaming and How to Learn to Control Your Dreams, Animated
- Eleanor Roosevelt’s Controversial Love Letters to Lorena Hickok
- A Message to Humanity: Charlie Chaplin’s Iconic Speech, Remixed
- As We May Think: Vannevar Bush’s Prescient 1945 Vision for the Information Age, the Power of “Curation,” and the Need for Open-Access Science
- Transformation as Authorship: From Igor Stravinsky to Philip Glass by Way of Disney and Beck
- What Would You Do If Money Were No Object? Alan Watts on the Life of Purpose
- A Private History of Happiness: The Art of Living with Presence, from Ptolemy to George Eliot to William Blake
- Logo Life: The Visual Evolution of 100 Iconic Logos
- An Imaginative Dutch Picture-Book Homage to Piet Mondrian
- The Wisdom of the Heart: Henry Miller on the Art of Living
- Hello Goodbye Hello: Rudyard Kipling Meets Mark Twain Meets Helen Keller
- How Bird Wings Work
- R. Crumb Illustrates Bukowski
- Margaret Atwood’s 10 Rules of Writing
- Emily Dickinson’s Poetry Set to Song by Israeli Singer-Songwriter Efrat Ben Zur
- Neil deGrasse Tyson on Intelligent Design as a Philosophy of Ignorance
- On Beauty, Quality, Poetry, and Integrity: Anaïs Nin Meets Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr. (1947)
- The Surprising Science of Why It’s Dark at Night, Animated
- Susan Sontag on Life, Death, Art, and Freedom
- The Architect Says: A Compendium of Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom from Iconic Architects
- The Famous Grids of Iconic Cities, Deconstructed and Remixed
- The Neurochemistry of Empathy, Storytelling, and the Dramatic Arc, Animated
- Graphic Canon vol. 2: Literary Comics from Lewis Carroll to the Brontë Sisters by Way of Darwin
- Politically Incorrect Advice to the Young from William S. Burroughs, Remixed
- Saddam Hussein’s Speeches on Democracy (1977-1978)
- How to Break Through Your Creative Block: Strategies from 90 of Today’s Most Exciting Creators
- Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, Susan Sontag, Harper Lee, and Other Literary Greats on Censorship
- Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
September 2012
- Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing
- Antilamentation: An Antidote to Regret from Poet Dorianne Laux
- Ways of Seeing: John Berger’s Classic 1972 BBC Critique of Consumer Culture
- Richard Feynman Explains Where Trees Actually Come From and How Fire Works
- Timeless Lessons in Ingenuity and Entrepreneurship from the Story of Polaroid
- T. S. Eliot on Creativity, with a Rare Reading of the Poet Reading “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
- Minimalist Posters Celebrating Six Pioneering Women in Science
- The History of Medicine in 250 Milestones
- William James on the Psychology of Habit
- Mockup Diagram Drawings of the Interior of the Space Shuttle, 1981
- Measurement: Exploring the Whimsy of Math through Playful Patterns, Shape and Motion
- Anaïs Nin on the Meaning of Life and the Dangers of the Internet, Before the Internet
- Neil deGrasse Tyson on Scientific Literacy, Education, and the Poetry of the Cosmos
- F. Scott Fitzgerald Responds to Hate Mail
- Hermann Hesse on What Trees Teach Us About Being Human
- The Science of Procrastination and How to Manage It, Animated
- The Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook: A Delicious Time Machine to Post-Edwardian England
- Gertrude Stein on Understanding and Joy: Rare 1934 Radio Interview
- The Frank Show: An Illustrated Homage to Grandparents and the Art of Looking Twice
- The Best Science Writing Online 2012, In a Print Book
- Zadie Smith’s 10 Rules of Writing
- The Science of Orgasms and Your Brain on Porn
- The Good Girls Revolt: The Untold Story of the 1970 Lawsuit That Changed the Modern Workplace
- The Elements of the Periodic Table, Personified as Illustrated Heroes
- NASA Remembers Neil Armstrong in a Moving Short Film
- Steven Johnson on the “Peer Progressive” Movement and What the Internet Wants
- Charles Bukowski, Arthur C. Clarke, Annie Dillard, John Cage, and Others on the Meaning of Life
- The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design
- Dan Ariely on the Truth About Dishonesty, Animated
- On “Pure Design” and What Beauty Really Means
- The Last Pictures: A Time-Capsule of Humanity in 100 Images Sent into Space for Eternity
- David Byrne on How Music and Creativity Work
- My Struggle: Salvador Dalí’s Credo, Illustrated by Molly Crabapple
- How to Raise a Child: 10 Rules from Young Susan Sontag
- Ted Hughes on the Universal Inner Child, in a Moving Letter to His Son
- Thoughtful Alphabets: Edward Gorey’s Lost Cryptic 26-Word Illustrated Stories
- This Is Water: David Foster Wallace on Life
- Kevin Stanton’s Cut-Paper Illustrations of Romeo and Juliet
- Vintage Posters for Libraries and Reading
- Richard Feynman on the One Sentence to Be Passed on to the Next Generation
- A Breakup Letter from Simone de Beauvoir
- Design, Knowledge, and Human Intelligence: RIP Bill Moggridge, Designer of the First Laptop
- The First Ads for Famous Books
- Hand-Lettered Illustrations of Emily Dickinson’s Poetry
- Why We Cry: The Science of Sobbing and Emotional Tearing
- No Dream-Laden Adolescent: Anaïs Nin Meets Young Gore Vidal, 1945
- Advice to Lovers: Century-Old Poetic Wisdom from Robert Graves
- Pioneers! O Space Pioneers! A Walt Whitman + NASA Mashup
- Christopher Hitchens on Mortality
- Elegantissima: The Design and Typography of Louise Fili
- Happy Birthday, Voyager 1: An Animated Adaptation of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot
- Words David Foster Wallace’s Mom Invented
- Ray Bradbury on Libraries, Space Exploration, and the Secret of Life: The Lost Comic-Con Interview
- The Science of “Chunking,” Working Memory, and How Pattern Recognition Fuels Creativity
- Anaïs Nin on Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Creativity
- Age of Power and Wonder: Vintage Science Infographics from 1930s Cigarette Cards
August 2012
- How to Read Like a Writer
- The Universe in a Nutshell: Michio Kaku on the Physics of Everything
- Loren Kantor’s Stark Woodcuts of Legendary Actors and Film Classics
- Anaïs Nin on Self-Publishing, the Magic of Letterpress, and the Joy of Handcraft
- How To Run Right
- How Consciousness Evolved and Why a Planetary “Übermind” Is Inevitable
- The Forms of Things Unknown: A Timeless 1963 Meditation on the Role of the Creative Arts in Society
- Bear Despair: A Charming Illustrated Wordless Story of Obsessiveness and Perseverance
- Beautiful Stop-Motion Animated Film About the Progression of Alzheimer’s
- Ezra Pound’s List of the Six Types of Writers, Plus His Two Rules for Forming an Opinion
- E. E. Cummings Set to Song
- Robert Sapolsky on Science and Wonder
- East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Stunning Century-Old Illustrations for Scandinavian Fairy Tales
- Susan Sontag’s List of Rules and Duties for Being 24
- Richard Feynman on the Role of Scientific Culture in Modern Society
- How to Be an Explorer of the World
- Tchaikovsky on the Paradox of Patronage and the Challenge of Retaining Creative Freedom in Commissioned Work
- What Makes a Great City: Anaïs Nin on the Poetics of New York
- The Creative Act: Marcel Duchamp’s 1957 Classic, Read by the Artist Himself
- The Beatles in Comics
- Ray Bradbury’s Unpublished Poems and His Meditation on Science vs. Religion
- August 22, 1969: The Beatles’ Final Photo Shoot
- Story of a Writer: Ray Bradbury on Storytelling and Human Nature in 1963 Documentary
- A Few Don’ts for Those Beginning to Write Verse from Ezra Pound
- Anaïs Nin on Why Understanding the Individual is the Key to Understanding Mass Movements
- What Actually Happens While You Sleep and How It Affects Your Every Waking Moment
- How Children Learn: Portraits of Classrooms Around the World
- How to Read a Poem: “Stored Magic,” Total Transformation, and the Capacity for Creative Wonder
- Mars and the Mind of Man: Carl Sagan, Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke in Cosmic Conversation, 1971
- Goethe on the Psychology of Color and Emotion
- Book Spine Poetry: Your Turn
- An Institution Committed to the Dulling of the Feelings: Susan Sontag on Marriage
- Bukowski on Living Fully
- Risk Intelligence, the Art of Uncertainty, and the Flawed Psychology of Airport Security
- Maya Angelou on Home, Belonging, and (Not) Growing Up
- A Lesson in Entrepreneurship, Perseverance and Publishing from Iconic Chef Julia Child
- Nick Hornby on Your Cultural Snobbery
- A List of “Rare Things” From 11th-Century Japanese Court Lady Sei Shonagon, World’s First Blogger
- Charles Darwin’s List of the Pros and Cons of Marriage
- How Remix Culture Fuels Creativity & Invention: Kirby Ferguson at TED
- 6 Rules for Creative Sanity from Radical Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich
- Anaïs Nin on Life, Hand-Lettered by Artist Lisa Congdon
- How Alfred Hitchcock Changed One Boy’s Life
- The Science of Sleep: Dreaming, Depression, and How REM Sleep Regulates Negative Emotions
- Sister Corita Kent’s 10 Rules for Students, Teachers, and Life, Beloved by John Cage
- The Science of How Music Enchants the Brain, Animated
- Dr. Seuss’s World War II Political Propaganda Cartoons
- Several Short Sentences About Writing
- Introducing Literary Jukebox: Daily Book Quote Matched with a Song
- Why Success Breeds Success: The Science of “The Winner Effect”
- The Role of “Ripeness” in Creativity and Discovery: Arthur Koestler’s Seminal 1964 Theory of the Creative Process
- Carl Sagan’s Message to Mars Explorers, with a Gentle Warning
- Twilight Zone Creator Rod Serling on Where Good Ideas Come From
- Creative Evolution: French Philosopher Henri Bergson on Intuition vs. the Intellect
- 29-Year-Old Patti Smith’s Poetic and Irreverent Monologue on Women and the Universe
- How Big Is Infinity? An Animated Explanation from TED
- Henry Miller on the Beautiful Balance of Giving and Receiving
- Significant Objects: How Stories Confer Value Upon the Vacant
- The Wisdom of Crowds
- Susan Sontag on Love: Illustrated Diary Excerpts
- Book Spine Poetry: The Spark of Love
- Anatomy of Lying
- Edward Gorey Illustrates Little Red Riding Hood and Other Classic Children’s Stories
- Is It Dirty: A Love Letter to New York’s Grit from Frank O’Hara, 1964
- The Calendar as a Meme: A Brief History of Timekeeping
- Anaïs Nin on Paris vs. New York, 1939
- A Three-Movement Choral Suite Based on Carl Sagan
- Cheating the Impossible: Wire-Walker Philippe Petit on Education, Creativity, and Patience
July 2012
- Twenty Beloved New York Writers on the Magic of Central Park
- The Art of War: The Ancient Chinese Classic Adapted for Dystopia circa 2032
- The Father of Modern Meteorology Pays Homage to Jonathan Swift in a Scientific Verse, 1920
- Henry Miller on Reading, the Life of the Mind, and How to Fix Education
- Maira Kalman on Walking as a Creative Device and the Difference Between Thinking and Feeling
- John Updike on the Universe and Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing
- Marilyn Monroe’s Unpublished Poems: The Complex Private Person Behind the Public Persona
- Illustration (The Finest Occupation): An Animated Short Film
- The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge: A 1939 Manifesto for the Incalculable Rewards of Joyful Curiosity
- Stanley Kubrick on Fear, Mortality, and the Purpose of Life: A Rare 1968 Playboy Interview
- Aldous Huxley on Freedom, Propaganda, and the Future of Technology: A Rare and Prophetic 1958 Interview by Mike Wallace
- Close to the Machine: Code and the Mesmerism of Building a World from Scratch
- Susan Sontag on Writing
- Maira Kalman on Identity, Happiness, and Existence
- The Probability That You Are Dreaming Right Now? 1 in 10.
- The Interplay of Inspiration and Work Ethic: Tchaikovsky on Creativity and Productivity
- Sally Ride, the First American Woman in Space, on What It’s Actually Like to Launch on the Space Shuttle
- Anti-Suffragette Postcards from the Early 20th Century
- The Great Race: An Exquisite Indonesian Fable of the Forest, Illustrated by Traditional Tribal Artists
- Cultural History Gem: Saul Bass’s Original Pitch for the Bell Systems Logo Redesign, 1969
- Trinity: A Graphic History of the Atomic Bomb
- Susan Sontag on Aphorisms and the Commodification of Wisdom
- Good Morning, Mr. Orwell: John Cage, George Plimpton, and the World’s First Satellite “Installation”
- Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
- The Burning House: What People Would Take if the House Was on Fire
- Einstein, Gödel, and the Science of Time Travel
- Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren: A Hopeful Vision for Post-Occupy Humanity circa 1930
- Hemingway Shoots His Cat
- Alligators All Around: A Maurice Sendak Alphabet Book from 1962
- Remembering Steven R. Covey with Timeless Insights from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- A Vintage Love Letter to Summer: Jan Morris on New York’s Heatwaves as the Ultimate Equalizer of Humanity
- Bill Plympton’s Quirky Animated Guides to Kissing and Lovemaking
- A Rare Glimpse of Leonardo da Vinci’s Anatomical Drawings
- This Is a Monomania: Balzac on Falling in Love
- Designers on Top: MoMA’s Paola Antonelli on the Evolution of Design
- Green Card Stories: A Visual Catalog of Immigrants’ Triumphs and Tribulations
- Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
- How a Bicycle Is Made
- Francis Bacon on Learning and How to Read Intelligently
- The Naughty Nineties: A Victorian Pop-Up Book for Adults Only
- Thoreau on Defining Your Own Success
- A Vintage Scientific Paper Published as a 38-Stanza Poem
- No Man’s Land: A Meditation on Mortality and Self-Delusion from French Illustrator Blexbolex
- The Family That Dwelt Apart: Lovely Vintage Animated Film Based on an E. B. White Short Story
- Carl Sagan’s Reading List
- Vita Sackville-West’s Love Letter to Virginia Woolf
- Book Spine Poetry vol. 6: A Working Theory of Love
- North : How a Small Arctic Town Became a Global Epicenter of Climate Science
- An Anatomy of Inspiration: A Century-Old Field Guide to Creativity
- Celebrating John Cage: 40 Years of Visualizing Music Notation Around the World
- The New Swiss Army Knife: Bill Gates Predicts the iPhone in 1995
- Italo Calvino’s 14 Criteria for What Makes a Classic
- The First Poem Published in a Scientific Journal
- 100 Ideas That Changed Architecture
- Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
- Epilogue: Book-Lovers on the Future of Print
- Freeman Dyson on Tool-Creation, Technology, and What Makes a Scientific Revolution
- Meet the Real Alice: How the Story of Alice in Wonderland Was Born
- E.O. Wilson’s Advice to Young Scientists
- The Surrealist Chart of Erotic Hand Signaling
- Digesting the Most Important Food Politics Book of the Past 50 Years
- Ralph Ellison on Race and the Power of the Writer in Society: A Rare 1966 Interview
- The Neurochemistry and Surprising Adaptive Value of Heartbreak
- The Science of Waiting and the Art of Delay
- A Visual Alphabet-Dictionary of Unusual Words
- Emily Roebling and How the Brooklyn Bridge Was Built
June 2012
- Creative Legend George Lois on Ideas as the Product of Discovery, Not Creation
- The Scientific Cure for Hangovers
- Powershift: Alvin Toffler Visionary Wisdom on the Age of Post-Fact Knowledge and the Super-Symbolic Economy
- Alice in Wonderland Pop-Up Book
- 7 Lessons on the Creative Life from the U.S. Forest Service
- Learned Optimism: Martin Seligman on Happiness, Depression, and the Meaningful Life
- Nora Ephron on Women, Love, Happiness, Reading, Life, and Death
- Isabella Rossellini’s Kooky Educational Films about Bees
- The Stunning Ornithological Illustrations of the Self-Taught Artist Genevieve Jones
- Talk to Me: Design and the Communication Between People and Objects
- Legendary Graphic Designer Milton Glaser on Art, Purpose, and the Capacity for Astonishment
- Susan Sontag on Censorship and the Three Steps to Refuting Any Argument
- Limbic Revision and How Love Rewires the Brain
- Alice in Wonderland as a Subway Map
- Why Writers Write: George Orwell on the Four Universal Motives for Creative Work
- Alan Turing: Church, State, and the Tragedy of Gender-Defiant Genius
- What Is Art? Favorite Famous Definitions, from Antiquity to Today
- Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace: Tracing the Evolution of Women’s Rights in a Victorian Lady’s Journals
- Against Positive Thinking: Uncertainty as the Secret of Happiness
- A Brief History of Alchemy, Pseudoscience & Transmutations, from Ancient China to Craig Venter
- Sartre on Why “Being-in-the-World-Ness” is the Key to the Imagination
- 5 Things Every Presenter Should Know About People, Animated
- Turtle Anatomy, in Stunning Images from 1820
- We Got Merge: Noam Chomsky on the Cognitive Function that Made Language Evolve
- Woodcut: A Meditation on Time Through the Inked Cross-Sections of Fallen Trees
- On Scientific Taste
- Henri Matisse’s Rare 1935 Etchings for James Joyce’s Ulysses
- The Cultural History and Adaptive Function of Boredom
- Shakespeare and the Number 14, or Why Poetry and Mathematics Belong Together
- 18-Year-Old Sylvia Plath on Loving Everybody and Living with Curiosity
- Iconic Designer Charles Eames’s Most Memorable Aphorisms
- Fatherly Advice from Famous Dads
- How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
- An Invisible Flower: Yoko Ono’s Time Machine of Love
- Sylvia Plath’s Drawings
- An Unquiet History of Libraries and Navigating Knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet
- The Origins of Sex: How the First Sexual Revolution Shaped Modern Society
- Bee City: 1951 Short Film about the Social Life of Bees
- What Makes a Classic? Lessons from the Chinese Book of Changes
- 6 Rules for a Great Story from Charles M. Schulz’s Son and Snoopy
- Christoph Niemann: Insecurity Is Essential to Great Design
- The Art of Coffee: A Mad Men Era Short Film
- French Polymath Henri Poincaré on How the Inventor’s Mind Works, 1908
- Summer Reading List 2012: 10 Essential Books for Cognitive Sunshine
- Legendary Architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Aphorisms on Education and Learning
- Queen Victoria’s Little-Known Art
- Cargo Cult Science: Richard Feynman’s 1974 Caltech Graduation Address on Integrity
- Ray Bradbury on Space, Education, and Our Obligation to Future Generations: A Rare 2003 Interview
- Dorothy Parker Obituary, 1967
- Remembering Ray Bradbury with 11 Timeless Quotes on Joy, Failure, Writing, Creativity, and Purpose
- Rilke’s Love Letters
- Gorgeous Vintage Soviet Art and Propaganda Posters
- What a Plant Knows
- Behavioral Economist Dan Ariely on the Relationship Between Creativity and Dishonesty
- The First Feminist Film (1922)
- Chasing Venus: When the World Came Together to Measure the Heavens
- A Visual History of Presidential Campaign Posters: 200 Years of Election Art from the Library of Congress Archives
- Is Pluto a Planet? An Animated Explanation Sets the Record Straight
- The Gnomes of Gnù: Umberto Eco Teaches Kids About Ecology Through Abstract Art
- Live the Questions: Rilke on Embracing Uncertainty and Doubt as a Stabilizing Force
- Thomas Edison’s To-Do List, 1888
- The Art of Scientific Investigation: How Intuition and the Imagination Fuel Scientific Discovery and Creativity
May 2012
- The Self Illusion: How Our Social Brain Constructs Who We Are
- How a Virus Conquers the World, Animated
- The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves
- A Girl and Her Room: Portraits of Teenage Girls’ Inner Worlds Through Their Bedroom Interiors
- Color Harmony: An Animated Explanation of How Color Vision Works circa 1938
- Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
- Trees of Life: A Visual History of Scientific Diagrams Explaining Evolution
- Live the Questions: Jacqueline Novogratz’s Advice to Graduates
- Get Dressed: Celebrated Graphic Designer Seymour Chwast Makes the Mundane Magical
- I Am Science: Short Film Traces Unconventional Paths to Life in Science
- Alice in Wonderland, in 24 Vintage Magic Lantern Slides Based on Sir John Tenniel’s Iconic Illustrations
- The Art of Chance-Opportunism in Creativity and Scientific Discovery
- How We Measure the Universe, Animated
- Gonzo: A Graphic Biography of Hunter S. Thompson
- Women Are Heroes: A Global Portrait of Strength in Hardship by French Guerrilla Artist-Activist JR
- Love Is Wise, Hatred Is Foolish: Bertrand Russell Timeless Message to the Future
- Brian Cox on the Heart of Science
- The Two Pillars of the Sensible and Sensitive Mind: Carl Sagan on Mastering the Vital Balance of Skepticism and Openness
- Douglas Adams’s Prophetic Vision for the Evolution of the Book
- The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning
- Book Spine Poetry vol. 5: The Meaning of Life
- Advice on Living the Creative Life from Neil Gaiman
- Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See
- To Do: Gertrude Stein’s Posthumous Alphabet Book
- Joan Didion on Self-Respect
- Snoopy’s Guide to the Writing Life: Ray Bradbury on Creative Purpose in the Face of Rejection
- 100 Ideas That Changed Film
- 5½ Timeless Commencement Speeches to Teach You to Define Your Own Success
- C. S. Lewis on Why “School Stories” and Media Distortion Are a More Deceptive Fiction Than Fiction
- Hippopposites: A Minimalist Lesson in Opposites and Aesthetics for Little Designers
- 1 + 1 = 3: Ken Burns on What Makes a Great Story
- 20 of Today’s Most Exciting Artists and Illustrators Reimagine the Paper Plane
- Little Bird: A Beautifully Minimalist Story of Belonging Lost and Found by Swiss Illustrator Albertine
- Neil deGrasse Tyson on Why We’re Wired for Science & How Originality Differs in Science vs. Art
- Recipes and Household Tips from Great Writers
- I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail: 17th-Century British “Trick” Poetry Meets Die-Cut Indian Folk Art
- Animated Anatomy of Shakespearean Slurs
- Sex and Punishment: A 4,000-Year History of Judging Desire
- René Magritte’s Little-Known Art Deco Sheet Music Covers from the 1920s
- 1953 Animated Adaptation of Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” The First X-Rated Cartoon in Britain
- Occupy: Noam Chomsky’s Guide to The History and Practice of Protest
- Henry Miller on Originality
- Richard Feynman Reveals the Key to Science in 63 Seconds
- The Science of Internal Time, Social Jet Lag, and Why You’re So Tired
- All Ideas Are Second-Hand: Mark Twain’s Magnificent Letter to Helen Keller About the Myth of Originality
- Her Idea: An Illustrated Allegory about Procrastination and the Creative Process
- Graphing Jane Austen: Using Science to Extrapolate the Human Condition from Classical Literature
- Maurice Sendak’s Unreleased Drawings and Intaglio Prints
- Going Solo: A Brief History of Living Alone and the Enduring Social Stigma Around Singletons
- Grim Colberty Tales: Maurice Sendak’s Last On-Camera Appearance
- Carl Sagan on Books
- 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design
- A Poetic Definition of Science Circa 1997
- Harry Clarke’s Haunting 1919 Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Stories
- Reason & Emotion: Pseudoscience Meets Gender Stereotypes in 1943 Disney Wartime Propaganda
- The Dalai Lama on Science and Technology
- A 5-Step Technique for Producing Ideas circa 1939
- Frank Lloyd Wright’s Lesser-Known Contributions to Graphic Design
- Pursuit of Light: NASA and Moby Capture the Magic of the Cosmos
- Litographs: Classic Books as Typographic Prints Supporting Global Literacy
- Harry Benson’s Luminous Black-and-White Photographs of The Beatles, 1964-1966
- The Storytelling Animal: The Science of How We Came to Live and Breathe Stories
- A Liberal Decalogue: Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments of Critical Thinking and Democratic Decency
- Ounce Dice Trice: Exploring the Whimsy of Words in Extraordinary Names for Ordinary Things
- John Updike on the Ethics and Poetics of Criticism
- The Conference of Birds: Beautifully Illustrated Story of Belonging Based on an Ancient Sufi Poem
- A Story for Tomorrow: A Cinematic Meditation on the Human Condition
- Lessons in Conveying Complex Ideas with Simple Graphics from the World’s Best Information Designers
April 2012
- Orson Welles on Work-Life Balance and the Creative Potency of Beginner’s Mind: A Rare 1960 Interview
- Between Page and Screen: A Digital Pop-Up Book about Love
- Luigi Russolo, Futurist: The Art of Noise and How the Occult Fueled Innovation in Music and Art
- When Einstein Met Tagore: A Remarkable Meeting of Minds on the Edge of Science and Spirituality
- The Human Body: What It Is and How It Works, in Vibrant Vintage Illustrations
- Dancing About Architecture: A Field Guide to Creativity
- Philosopher John Searle Defines Consciousness
- A Typographic Literary Map of San Francisco, in a Puzzle
- Free Radicals: How Anarchy and Serendipity Fueled Science, from Newton to Tesla to Steve Jobs
- The Sky Is Calling Us: A Cinematic Love Letter to Space Exploration
- Dreamers and Storytellers: E. O. Wilson on Art and Reconciling Science and the Humanities
- The Animal Fair: Vibrant Vintage Children’s Illustration by Alice and Martin Provensen
- Book Spine Poetry vol. 4: Music
- How the Hubble Space Telescope Captured the Cosmos
- A Journey to the End of the World: Tracing Polar Explorer Shackleton’s Footsteps a Century Later
- Frank Chimero on the Shape of Design and the Harmonics of Influence
- The Freud Files: How Freud Engineered His Own Myth
- E. B. White’s Only New Yorker Cover, April 23, 1932
- Book Spine Poetry vol. 3: New York
- 5 (Mostly) Vintage Children’s Books by Iconic Graphic Designers
- To Infinity and Beyond: BBC Untangles the Most Exponential Mystery
- C. S. Lewis on the Secret of Happiness in a Letter to Child
- A Visual Antidote to Cynicism
- If Darth Vader Actually Raised Luke Skywalker
- Yayoi Kusama, Japan’s Most Celebrated Contemporary Artist, Illustrates Alice in Wonderland
- The Rainbow as a Metaphor for Understanding Consciousness
- Book Spine Poetry vol. 2: Get Smarter
- E. B. White on the Role and Responsibility of the Writer
- Magnificent Maps: Cartography as Power, Propaganda, and Art
- Sir Ken Robinson on How Finding Your Element Changes Everything
- Book Spine Poetry vol. 1: The Future
- How 17 Equations Changed the World
- The Geometry of God: The Striking Kaleidoscopic Patterns of European Cathedral Ceilings
- Magic Hours: Tom Bissell on the Secrets of Creators and Creation
- A Letter of Advice to Young Contrarians from Christopher Hitchens
- From Jell-O to Ballet, 7 Ordinary Things is Extraordinary Slow-Motion
- How to Listen to Music: A Vintage Guide to the 7 Essential Skills
- The Brotherhood of Man: Vintage Animated Short Film Debunks the Myths of Racist Beliefs (1946)
- John Cleese on the Five Factors to Make Your Life More Creative
- The Age of Insight: How the Cross-Pollination of Art and Science in Early 20th-Century Vienna Shaped Modern Culture
- How Muybridge Changed Science Through Art: A Fascinating Vintage Short Film by the U.S. Department of Defense
- Seuss-isms: Wise and Witty Prescriptions for Living from the Good Doctor
- C.S. Lewis’s Advice to Children on Duty and the Only Three Things Worth Worrying About
- 500,000 Strangers’ Secrets: PostSecret Founder Frank Warren at TED
- A Glorious Enterprise: The Making of American Science
- Women in Science: Einstein’s Advice to a Little Girl Who Wants to Be a Scientist
- What is Philosophy? An Omnibus of Definitions from Prominent Philosophers
- How Long Is a Piece of String? BBC and Comedian Alan Davies Explore Quantum Mechanics
- Waterlife: Exquisite Tribal Art Drawings of Marine Creatures Based on Indian Folk Mythology
- Joel Robison’s Whimsical Photographic Abstractions of the Joy of Reading
- What Is Science? From Feynman to Sagan to Asimov to Curie, an Omnibus of Definitions
- Hidden Treasure: Ten Centuries of Rare Archival Images Visualizing the Body
- The Pleasure of the Inconceivable Nature of Nature: A Feynman Remix Featuring Joan Feynman
- Dating Advice from Dickens: A Collection of Victorian Vignettes
- Edward Gorey’s Donald Illustrations
- The Old Man and the Sea, Animated in Hand-Drawn Stop-Motion
- The Origin and Cultural Evolution of Silence
- The Philosophy of Alice in Wonderland
- Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tenets of Storytelling
- Abstract City: Christoph Niemann’s Visual Essays
- How Ignorance Fuels Science and the Evolution of Knowledge
- Vowels: A Cinematic Homage to the Beauty of Language and Life
- London Unfurled: An Obsessive 37-Foot Accordion Drawing
March 2012
- What Is Love: A Dozen Definitions from Charlie Brown and the Peanuts
- Why Creativity Necessitates Eclecticism: Nick Cave’s Influences and Inspirations
- Beautiful Vintage Cross-Sections of Trees, Many Rare or Extinct Today
- Ancient Romans’ Fanciful and Entertaining Pre-Scientific Beliefs about Animal Behavior
- Brian Cox Explains Entropy and the Arrow of Time with Sandcastles and Glaciers
- Heinz Dilemma: A Hand-Drawn Interactive Animation to Test Your Moral Development
- Philosopher Daniel Dennett on Memes, Luck, Consciousness, and the Meaning of Life
- The Last Journey of a Genius: Richard Feynman’s Quest to Visit the Remote Lost Land of Tuva
- The Idea Factory: Insights on Creativity from Bell Labs and the Golden Age of Innovation
- William Gottlieb’s Beautiful Vintage Photographs of Jazz Legends, from Billie Holiday to Louis Armstrong
- The Magic of Seeds and the Science of Insuring Earth’s Future
- Little 1: Paul Rand’s Sweet Vintage Children’s Book About Numbers, Soulmates, and Belonging
- F. Scott Fitzgerald on Mastering the Muse and How He Wrote His Debut Novel to Win the Love of His Life
- The Importance of Frustration in the Creative Process, Animated
- The Happiness of Pursuit: What Science and Philosophy Can Teach Us About the Holy Grail of Existence
- The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss
- Advice on Advice from Literary Greats
- PBS Off Book: Art in the Age of the Internet
- Jack Kerouac’s List of 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Writing and Life
- Plink Plink! Celebrate World Water Day with Vintage Children’s Illustrations circa 1954
- Connectome: A New Way To Think About What Makes You You
- People-Dependent Technology: Designing with Our Highest Ideals for One Another
- 27 of Humanity’s Strangest Inventions
- Oh, My Hand: Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Illuminated Manuscripts
- How Creativity Works
- The Power of Simple Words, Animated
- How Famous Words Originated, According to the Historical Oxford English Dictionary
- Einstein on Kindness, Our Shared Existence, and Life’s Highest Ideals
- Alfred Hitchcock on the Secret of Happiness
- The Life of Rumi in Rare Islamic Manuscript Paintings from the 1590s
- What We Talk About When We Talk About “Curation”
- E. B. White on the Free Press and the Evils of Corporate Interests in Media
- The Baloney Detection Kit: A 10-Point Checklist for Science Literacy
- The Vital Interplay of Intuition and Rationality in Love and the Emotional Mind
- Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the iPad in 1968
- The Three Astronauts: Umberto Eco’s Lovely Vintage Semiotic Children’s Book About Space and World Peace
- 5 Art and Design Projects Inspired by Literary Classics
- Denise Levertov Reads “The Secret”
- The Smiley Book of Colors
- Carl Jung on Life and Death
- The Lady Anatomist: The Wax Sculptures of 18th-Century Artist-Scientist Anna Morandi Manzolini
- Noam Chomsky on the Purpose of Education
- Six Tips on Writing from John Steinbeck
- The Laws of Thermopoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science
- Alan Turing’s Reading List: Books the Computing Pioneer Borrowed From His School Library
- Introducing The Curator’s Code: A Standard for Honoring Attribution of Discovery Across the Web
- Ray Bradbury on Doing What You Love and Reading as a Prerequisite for Democracy
- Neil deGrasse Tyson Testifies Before Senate on the Spirit of Exploration
- Creating a “Fourth Culture” of Knowledge: Jonah Lehrer on Why Science and Art Need Each Other
- Austin Kleon on 10 Things Every Creative Person Should Remember But We Often Forget
- Comic Books as the Grimms’ Fairy Tales of Pop Culture
- How Iconic Album Cover Illustrator R. Crumb Brought Comics to Music
- Ralph Ellison on Literature as a Voice Against Injustice, a Chariot of Hope, and a Lens on the Human Experience
- From Francis Bacon to Hobbes to Turing: George Dyson on the History of Bits
- Religion for Atheists: Alain de Botton on What Education and the Arts Can Learn from Faith
- Film, Film, Film: 1968 Soviet Animated Parody of the Movie Industry
- Neil deGrasse Tyson on Space, Politics, and the Most Important Thing to Know About the Universe
- A Booklover’s Map of Literary Geography circa 1933
- At the End of the Rainbow: Vintage Film about Ultraviolet Light, 1946
- The Power of Habit and How to Rewire Our “Habit Loops”
- The Seven Lady Godivas: Dr. Seuss’s Little-Known “Adult” Book of Nudes
- David Foster Wallace on Art vs. TV and the Motivation to be Smart
- What Is Character? Debunking the Myth of Fixed Personality
- Gorgeous Vintage PSA Posters for Reading from the 1930s and 1940s
- NYTimes Data Artist Jer Thorp on Humanized Data at the Intersection of Science, Art, and Design
- Memory Is Not a Recording Device: How Technology Shaped Our Metaphors for Remembering
February 2012
- Sparkle and Spin: A Clever 1957 Children’s Book About Words Illustrated by Iconic Designer Paul Rand
- The Visual Cliff: What a 1960 Perception Experiment Reveals About Emotional Decision-Making
- Full Spectrum 2012: 10 Books on Sensemaking for the TED Bookstore
- Wired for Culture: How Language Enabled “Visual Theft,” Sparked Innovation, and Helped Us Evolve
- Vintage Posters from the Golden Age of Travel, 1910-1959
- From Invisible Ink to Cryptography, How the American Revolution Did Spycraft and Privacy-Hacking
- From Rapunzel to The Little Red Riding Hood, Beloved Children’s Classics as Minimalist Posters
- This Is My Home: Inside Anthony’s Parlor of Curiosities
- How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love
- William Gibson on Cultivating a “Personal Micro-Culture”
- A Brief History of Children’s Picture Books and the Art of Visual Storytelling
- The Science of Why the Past is Different from the Future, Animated
- Systematic Wonder: A Definition of Science That Accounts for Whimsy
- The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn’s Catalog of Humanity
- The Disappearing Bicyclist: A Chess Champion’s Vintage Puzzle to Tickle Your Brain
- Henry Miller’s 11 Commandments of Writing and His Daily Creative Routine
- Glorious Vintage Photos of Early Australian Bike Culture from the Beginning of the 20th Century
- Ira Glass on the Secret of Success in Creative Work, Animated in Kinetic Typography
- Henri’s Walk to Paris: Legendary Designer Saul Bass’s Only Children’s Book, Resurrected Half a Century Later
- Why Everything is Connected to Everything Else, Explained in 100 Seconds
- From Philip Glass to Patti Smith, How 1970s New York Shaped Music for Decades to Come
- Kurt Vonnegut on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, 2005
- ABCinema: A Famous Film for Each Letter of the Alphabet, Animated in One Minute
- Full Spectrum Reading List: 7 Great Books by TED 2012 Speakers
- Design Legend David Carson Brings Marshall McLuhan’s “Probes” to Life
- Everything is a Remix Part 4: System Failure
- All the Time in the World
- Stone Is Not Cold: Miroslav Šašek’s Playful Vintage Children’s Illustrations of Classical Sculpture
- David Brooks on the Dangerous Division Between Reason and Emotion, Animated
- Urville: An Autistic Savant’s Remarkable Imaginary City, 20 Years in the Making
- Richard Feynman’s Mischievous Nobel Prize Wager
- Michael Pollan’s Food Rules Animated in Stop-Motion
- Guitar Zero: A Neuroscientist Debunks the Myth of “Music Instinct” and Learns to Play
- Designer Kelli Anderson on Disruptive Wonder and the Hidden Talents of Everyday Things
- Vintage Valentine’s Day Postcards from the Early 1900s
- This Will Make You Smarter: 151 Big Thinkers Each Pick a Concept to Enhance Your Cognitive Toolkit
- The Bomb and the General: Umberto Eco’s Vintage Semiotic Children’s Book About Peace and Environmental Wakefulness
- Elizabeth Gilbert on How Schopenhauer’s Porcupine Dilemma Reveals the Secret of Happiness
- The Quantum Universe: Why All That Can Happen Does Happen
- E. B. White on Why Brevity Is Not the Gold Standard for Style
- A Brief Animated History of the Modern Calendar
- How McLuhan, Agel, and Fiore Created a New Visual Vernacular for the Information Age
- Six Vintage-Inspired Animations on Critical Thinking
- A Wordle Anatomy of Gary Stheyngart Blurbs
- A Brief History of the To-Do List and the Psychology of Its Success
- Paul Rand on The Role of the Imagination
- How To Be Emotionally Stable: A Cosmic Melody
- Da Vinci’s Ghost: How The Vitruvian Man Came To Be
- Cartographies of Time: A Visual History of the Timeline
- Why Pink Doesn’t Exist: An Illustrated Stop-Motion Science Explanation in 60 Seconds
- 10 Tips on Writing from David Ogilvy
- A Witty and Wise 1953 Letter from Legendary Children’s Book Editor Ursula Nordstrom
- All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: Adam Curtis on How Technology Limits Us
- Francesco Franchi on Visual Storytelling and Representation vs. Interpretation
- The Art of Medicine: Mapping the Body in 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination
- This Is Your Brain on Comedy
- A Brief History of The Elements of Style and What Makes It Great
- Wisdom on Life from Jackson Pollock’s Dad: A Beautiful Letter of Fatherly Advice to the 16-Year-Old Future Visionary Artist
- Three Primary Colors: OK Go and Sesame Street Explain Basic Color Theory in Stop-Motion
- Lost in Learning: Celebrating the Art and Spirit of Discovery
- Pasta by Design: Finding Whimsy in the Geometry of Food
- How Mankind Conquered the Night and Created the 24-Hour Day
- The Dot and the Line: A 1965 Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster
January 2012
- Paris vs. New York: Minimalist Illustrated Parallels of Culture
- Christopher Sykes, the Filmmaker Behind the Beloved Richard Feynman Documentaries
- Dogs in Books: An Illustrated History
- Charles Bukowski on What Love Is
- The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors
- The Death of the Editor and the Rise of the Circulation Manager
- Schematics: A Love Story in Geometric Diagrams
- An Animated History of Human Communication: 1965 Educational Film about the Telephone
- From Mark Twain to Ray Bradbury, Iconic Writers on Truth vs. Fiction
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: A Story of Passion and Possibility
- Time Piece: Muppets Creator Jim Henson’s Experimental 1965 Film on Time-Keeping
- Laconia: An Architecture of Thinking
- “Sincerity, Honesty, Conviction, Affection, Imagination, and Humor”: A Profile of Charles Eames, 1946
- The Ice Balloon: The Story of the Disastrous 1897 Expedition to the North Pole by Air
- What It’s Like to Live in a Universe of Ten Dimensions
- Lewis Hyde on Work vs. Labor and the Pace of Creativity
- How Money Is Made: A 1920 Silent Film from the Royal Mint of Canada
- Why We Like the New and Shiny: A History and Future of Neophilia
- It’s Only with the Heart One Can See Rightly: A Hand-Drawn Quote from The Little Prince
- Tango: The First Polish Short Film to Win an Oscar, 1980
- Architecture Without Architects: What Ancient Structures Reveal About Collaborative Design
- Throw Over Your Man: Virginia Woolf’s 1927 Love Letter to Vita Sackville-West
- The First Kiss in Cinema: How Thomas Edison Scandalized the World in 1896
- Visions of the Jinn: A Visual History of Arabian Nights
- The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption
- Pedaling Progress: The Dutch Queen Juliana Riding a Bike, 1967
- Gorgeous Vintage Swiss Stamps from the 1940s-1970s
- The Science of Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
- Woz on Creativity: Work Alone
- A.A. Milne on Happiness and How Winnie-the-Pooh Was Born
- The Greatest Grid: How Manhattan’s Famous Street Map Came to Be
- The Solar System Set to Music: A Near-Perpetual Homage to Bach
- Babel No More: Inside the Secrets of Superhuman Language-Learners
- The Letters of Greats: From Ernest Hemingway to Georgia O’Keeffe, a Glimpse of Famous Correspondence
- Manuel Lima on the Power of Knowledge Networks in the Age of Infinite Connectivity
- The Origin of Snark: Original Illustrations from Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark,” 1876
- Scrap Irony: Irreverent Illustrated Cultural Commentary by Edward Gorey circa 1961
- Elevator Groupthink: An Ingenious 1962 Psychology Experiment in Conformity
- A Beautiful Animated Adaptation of Bukowski’s Poem “The Bluebird”
- John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter of Advice to His Lovesick Teenage Son
- The Hidden Beauty of Pollination
- The Antikythera Mechanism: The Story of Humanity’s Oldest Analog Computer, circa 150 B.C.
- The Joy of Books: A Stop-Motion Rainbow Intervention
- Einstein, Anne Lamott, and Steve Jobs on Intuition vs. Rationality
- The Future Belongs to the Curious: A Manifesto for Curiosity
- Artist Ronald Searle’s Tender Illustrated Love Letter to His Wife Recovering from Cancer
- Mark Twain’s Rules of Writing
- Network: The Secret Life of Your Personal Data, Animated
- The Zen of Steve Jobs: A Graphic Novella About “The Lost Years”
- 9 Books on Reading and Writing
- How the Dutch Got Their Bike Paths
- New York Diaries: 400 Years of Great Writers’ Reflections on a Great City
- The Dawn of the Microprocessor and the Birth of Venture Capital
- Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots
- Bike Art: Bicycles in Art Around the World
- Three Classic Fairy Tales Examined Through the Lens of Architecture
- A Rare Look at Samuel Beckett’s Doodle-Filled Notebooks
- Drawing Mental Illness: Artist Bobby Baker’s Visual Diary
- 19-Year-Old Isaac Newton’s List of Sins
- The World Is Round: Gertrude Stein’s Little-Known 1938 Children’s Book
- A List of Don’ts for Women on Bicycles Circa 1895
- Mathemagician Vi Hart Explains Spirals and Fibonacci Numbers in Doodles and Vegetables
- Situations Matter: How Context Shapes Our Lives
- Advice to Sink in Slowly: Designers Share Wisdom with First-Year Students in Poster Series
- Mail-Order Mysteries: Real-World Stuff from Vintage Comic Book Ads