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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.

“None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.”

On the 75th anniversary of the Works Progress Administration, a look at its political heritage and design legacy.

Five cool, creative examples of using the iconic London Tube Map as a visual metaphor

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.

A 1993 interview of Steve Jobs, talking about what it was like to work with iconic designer Paul Rand, the mastermind behind the equally iconic Apple logo.

On finding light, taking chances and the ownership of life.

How political correctness resulted in enforcing a universal, cross-cultural gender stereotype.

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.