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Why Google Will Never Beat Old-Fashioned Design Research
The teacher of a "No Google!" design class explains the importance of digging up objects—and their stories—by hand
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'Dripped': Striking Animated Homage to Jackson Pollock
A whimsical video examines the evolution of art and a painter's progress along a path of experimentation and self-discovery
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Creative Consumption: An Artist Draws Our Material World
Kate Bingaman-Burt's blog turned book, Obsessive Consumption, captures the author's purchases in beautiful ink drawings
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Who Invented the Oreo? The Unsung Heroes of Cookie Design
An account of biscuit stamping, communion wafers, and whether the Oreo's success hinges on its links to the Freemasons
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The 250th Birthday of English Literature's Most Unusual Page
A close look at the swirls of Tristram Shandy's famous marbled page, which helped define the art of the modern novel
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Celebrating Vintage Books: A Stunning, $800 Atlas
First up in a new video series on literary treasures: a look at the beautifully designed World Geo-Graphic Atlas, from 1953
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In a New Book, Food and Sensuality Become Art
A recipe for something nice to put on your coffee table: mix one part fresh fruits and vegetables and one part nude bodies
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The King of the Sunday Funnies
Peter Maresca's quest to preserve the look and feel of America's original Sunday comic strips by becoming an "accidental publisher"—and printing unusually large books
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Corporate Creativity: A Designer Collects 1,300 Logos
Our Q & A with Angus Hyland, whose new book, Symbol, examines everything from Apple's apple logo to the CBS eye
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Drawn In: A Peek Inside Favorite Artists' Private Sketchbooks
Questions and answers with Julia Rothman, whose latest project goes straight to the source of hidden creative processes
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Do Federal Nutritionists Get Graphic Design? Maybe Not
MyPlate, which replaced the Food Pyramid, is pleasing and colorful. But it's a logo, not a chart—and that's a problem.
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Christoph Niemann Draws Work, Creativity, and Happiness
The illustrator and designer captures the joy, frustration, and humor of daily life with smart, whimsical sketches
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Bibliographic: The 100 Best Design Books of the Past 100 Years
An exercise in metadesign: a design book about design books points amateurs and experts alike to beauty and inspiration
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How the Food Pyramid Failed and Why We Needed MyPlate
Atlantic contributor and designer Michael Bierut on the mind-boggling product of a brainstorm gone wrong
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The Real Helvetica: A Designer Restores the Original Font
Helvetica wasn't always the cold, rational typeface it is today. For the first time, someone is bringing back its beauty.
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Designing Minds: Video Profiles of World-Famous Designers
From Stefan Sagmeister to Yves Behar, a look at why famous creators create and where their inspiration comes from
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'Radioactive': Marie Curie's Life Story Told in Cyanotype
In her biography of an extraordinary woman, Laren Redniss uses an imaging process critical to the discovery of x-rays and radioactivity
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The Art of Design Research (and Why It Matters)
Design can exist without "the research." But if we don't study the world, we don't always know how or what to create.
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Playful, Subversive Covers Give Nabokov's Books New Life
Selling books is hard, even for Nabokov—so Penguin has brought beauty and mischief to the jackets of his classics
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Life in Miniature: Magnificent Street Art Sculptures
Strategically placed in London and other cities, Isaac Cordal's tiny figurines explore the nature of urban solitude
