Browsing: Design

Over eight centuries of humanity’s evolving views of the universe, from ancient Buddhist cosmological maps to Galileo’s seminal work in astronomy to Persian celestial globes and more

Exploring why alphabets look like they do, what has happened to them since printing was invented, why they won’t ever change, and how it might have been.

Artist Lauren Redniss tells the remarkable story of Marie Curie using an early-20th-century cameraless photographic technique and vintage typography from the NYPL archive.

How nature inspired one of the world’s greatest industrial inventions.

165 international musicians and composers visualize sheet music in a remarkable showcase of new-age notation.

An ambitious anthology exploring the use of Arabic script in urban context.

Our favorite contemporary manifestos that nudge your ideas out of your head and into the hands of the world.

Noma Bar’s brilliant negative space illustrations comment on pressing sociopolitical issues with provocative subtlety.

A whimsical compendium of 100 odd and obscure words, illustrated artist Polly M. Law’s signature bricolage paper-dolls style.

The story of a 1930s system for capturing quantitative information in pictograms that shaped much of today’s visual language.