The Secret Lives of Maps: Artist Finds Stories in Geography
Ingrid Dabringer transforms normal maps into whimsical people and creatures, using paint to reveal their hidden shapes 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.
Ingrid Dabringer transforms normal maps into whimsical people and creatures, using paint to reveal their hidden shapes More »
Nathalie Miebach crosses disciplinary boundaries to combine data visualization with color, shape, and sound More »
A photographer explores the former Yugoslavia and the Balkans in search of the Eastern Bloc's forgotten retrofuturistic monuments More »
An artist and author sketches and contemplates what makes cathedrals, castles, and mosques last—beautifully—for centuries More »
Fuzz & Fur, now available from Amazon, examines odd creatures that promote everything from ski slopes to water purification More »
A look back at the early-20th-century inventors of a new art form, from Émile Cohl to Eadweard J. Muybridge More »
The art of the map—literary maps, maps of the body, maps of the imagination, and more—comes to life in this curated round-up of creative cartography More »
A short silent film from 1911, Little Nemo, contains the seeds of one of the 20th century's defining storytelling techniques More »
Though removed from the BBC's website, "The Beauty of Maps," a guide to some of the world's great objects, persists on YouTube More »
The Open Daybook, from Mark Batty Publisher, helps you track the year's progress with daily hits of visual wonder More »
A book by Atlantic contributor Steven Heller looks at what images and typography have to do with Hitler, Stalin, and Mao More »
A book uses lavish illustrations and typography to tell how cultures transformed sounds into letters, why letters look the way they do, and why they'll never change More »
A round-up of intimate drawings from Meriwether Lewis, Milton Glaser, Stefan Sagmeister, and other bright minds More »
A whimsical video examines the evolution of art and a painter's progress along a path of experimentation and self-discovery More »
Kate Bingaman-Burt's blog turned book, Obsessive Consumption, captures the author's purchases in beautiful ink drawings More »
A round-up of graduation talks filled with wisdom and inspiration, from J.K. Rowling to Steve Jobs to Meryl Streep More »
First up in a new video series on literary treasures: a look at the beautifully designed World Geo-Graphic Atlas, from 1953 More »
A recipe for something nice to put on your coffee table: mix one part fresh fruits and vegetables and one part nude bodies More »
An example of the design, reception, and transformative power of the bicycle, a simple machine that changed the world More »
Questions and answers with Julia Rothman, whose latest project goes straight to the source of hidden creative processes More »
