design

“Art is not a thing — it is a way,” Elbert Hubbard observed in 1908 in what became one of […]

In 1989, street artist, graphic designer, and activist Shepard Fairey created his famous Obey Giant sticker campaign, which spread like

By Maria Popova In the fall of 2013, as Brain Pickings was turning seven, I wrote about the seven most

Why is it that when we behold the oldest living trees in the world, primeval awe runs down our spine?

Psychologists believe that our capacity for creative work hinges on our memory and the ability to draw on our mental

Once again this year, I was delighted to serve on the “Brain Trust” for an annual project by Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist,

In 2002, a small and confounding book titled Schott’s Original Miscellany (public library) was released to very little fanfare by

As a lover of imaginative and intelligent alphabet books and of absolutely everything Maira Kalman does, I find the letters

“I can see no reason to be bound by chronological time,” Jeanette Winterson wrote in her spectacular essay on time