Browsing: Books

A peculiar kind of meditation through pattern-making blends visual creativity and mental health.

From legendary photographer Herman Leonard, a rare glimpse of the underbelly of a cultural revolution through stunning, luminous never-before-seen images of jazz icons.

Gorgeous pattern-driven designs, part Victorian wallpaper, part modernist upholstery, that breathe new life into some of literature’s greatest classics.

French photographer Cedric Pollet travels the world to document the most beautiful tree barks in a project that is part stunning art photography, part implicit manifesto for biodiversity.

A brief history of visualizing the brain, from antiquity to the 21st century.

“We hope. We despair. We hope. We despair. This is what governs us. We have a bipolar system.”

Fascinating project tells the global story of our relationship to food through portraits of 80 people from 30 countries and the food they eat in one day

In the early 1980’s, James R. Murphy began teaching math using string figures to engage kids who didn’t like math. Then Robin Moore, a student of Murphy’s and a budding photographer, began taking portraits.

A cross between an illuminated manuscript, personal journal, and a tome of mini Buddhist mandalas, The Red Book provides a singular and extraordinary insight into one of the 20th century’s most celebrated minds.

An epic tome about the film that never happened, making Kubrick’s ambitious work on “Napoleon” available to the world for the first time as 10 books that live inside one giant volume.