Adolf Hoffmeister's stunningly illustrated book captures his experience of life on the run from the Nazis with humor and poignancy
From ever-inventive designer Stefan G. Bucher comes 344 Questions -- a delightful pocket-sized compendium of flowcharts and lists illustrated in Bucher's unmistakable style
"I got a bug to do wet plate photography in '76. In this day and age of digital, it's so easy to just shoot thousands of pictures a day."
Of the many icons created after 9/11, those makeshift memorials and haunting "missing" flyers were the most devastatingly sad
Demographically and geographically, the members of the Dozen are more diverse and expansive than the Five of 40 years ago
What This American Life's Ira Glass has to do with atlas antagonism, or what plotting carved pumpkins reveals about place
Israeli illustrator Noma Bar reacts to a blatant rip-off of his brilliant portrait of Adolf Hitler found on the cover of a legendary magazine
Doyald Young never made it through high school, but as this short documentary shows, that never made any difference
Age is often associated with creative obsolescence—so why are so many of the oldest designers still so good?
Among million-dollar jewels and fancy cars, a writer investigates the culinary habits of a most peculiar tribe
What is absolutism? Humanism? Genis Carreras's designs render these philosophical movements—and others—comprehensible.
Available in English for the first time, a book by a minimalist French illustrator brings the richness of human society to life
Kindles and iPads have a lot of advantages—but they still can't duplicate paper cutouts. A roundup of impossible-to-digitize reading.
An ambitious book chronicles the cross-disciplinary genius of the painter/inventor/architect/engineer
A designer dreams up everything from hot-tub cars to shoes with headlights—and sometimes predicts the future
Scribbles and renderings from 85 leading architects bring a new book to life, offering windows into the creative process
The Happy Film examines what happens when we follow psychologists' advice—and when we do things that scare us
From Miles Davis to Stephen Hawking, these portraits force us to consider how to depict fame when anyone can just take a photo
A book examines architects, designers, and other thinkers who have figured out how to visualize the urban experience
Photographic beauty and cultural analysis collide in these in-depth reads about Arabic graffiti, Japanese manhole covers, and the history of a ubiquitous art form