A Definitive Guide to Leonardo da Vinci's Paintings and Drawings
An ambitious book chronicles the cross-disciplinary genius of the painter/inventor/architect/engineer More »
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Maria Popova is the editor of Brain Pickings. She writes for Wired UK and GOOD, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow.
An ambitious book chronicles the cross-disciplinary genius of the painter/inventor/architect/engineer More »
A book looks at how the cerebral cortex has become a 21st-century version of Warhol's soup cans or Marilyn Monroes More »
From Miles Davis to Stephen Hawking, these portraits force us to consider how to depict fame when anyone can just take a photo More »
A book examines architects, designers, and other thinkers who have figured out how to visualize the urban experience More »
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 More »
From a teahouse for geishas-in-training to a hut in the Amazon, a book captures the diversity of kids'-room interior design More »
Visibility, invisibility, and what the spirit of letters has to do with the meaning of text More »
The Israeli illustrator's images of everyone from Einstein and Stalin to Bill Murray crackle with humor, smarts, and wit More »
A design book unites everything from graphic design to packaging to explore the individual hues that color our everyday lives More »
3-D letterforms, a classic essay on the cultural role of typography, and a book about fonts that look like handwriting are just a few of these highlights More »
Before his Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's Soup prints, the pop art legend illustrated books—and they're still available and inexpensive More »
Nathan Yau's new book, Visualize This, shows how to use design to make sense of an information-flooded world More »
Elementary-school geometry meets the high style of designers such as Saul Bass in this brief but brilliant video by Jurjen Versteeg More »
A film, now out on DVD, shows how Milton Glaser, one of the most famous living graphic designers, has "informed and delighted" More »
A tribute to the man whose "music for the eyes" transformed the look of records—and every tape and CD that followed More »
A new book examines the fact that our heads contain the most advanced device in the known universe—a device that isn't perfect More »
Dan Haga and Dan Ayers's Urban Atrophy uses photographs to document the architecture of abandonment More »
Scripts: Elegant Lettering From Design's Golden Age is a stunning, sentimental book on fonts that resemble handwriting More »
A film from the Getty Museum introduces viewers to the beautiful handwritten books known as illuminated manuscripts More »
A book collects scraps of paper that detail the everyday decision-making of artists including Rothko and de Kooning More »
