design

By Maria Popova Almost a century before Mondrian made his iconic red, yellow, and blue geometric compositions, and around the […]

Provided how many famous creators had secret talents — including Richard Feynman’s drawings, Marilyn Monroe’s poetry, Rube Goldberg’s political art,

“Everything rolls, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being,” Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Indeed, it seems

By Maria Popova Given my soft spot for pop-up books, I was instantly taken with this collaboration between paper engineer

In 1982, Apple hired German-American industrial designer and inventor Hartmut Esslinger to overhaul the company’s design strategy. He created the

Celebrated Italian novelist, philosopher, essayist, literary critic, and list-lover Umberto Eco (January 5, 1932–February 19, 2016) has had a long

In 1959, beloved children’s book author and illustrator Leo Lionni(May 5, 1910–October 11, 1999) created a lovely little book for

By Maria Popova In Pieces (public library | IndieBound) is an uncommon piece of visual poetry by French illustrator and

What does it take to have a good life? That’s what Jonathan Fields, author of Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt