Browsing: Design

The incredible vintage illustrations of Soviet mathematician Anatolii Fomenko, exploring the intersection of mathematics and the myth of light geometry.

Poetic and playful pop-up books by paper sculpture master David Carter.

A beautiful invitation to inhabit a different mode of sensorial reality.

Remarkable short documentary from 1968, animated by iconic designer Saul Bass and alluringly subtitled “a series of explorations, episodes & comments on creativity.”

70 years of Penguin paperbacks, a living record of the evolution of contemporary design.

From body art to Thomas More’s Utopia, or what Moby Dick has to do with the nature of time

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

In a microdocumentary about her work, iconic designer Paula Scher echoes our belief that creativity is a combinatorial force.

As far as odd bedfellows go, it hardly gets any odder than literature and action figures. Which is why we’re all over these literary action figures. Roam the wide spectrum of genres and time periods with Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde and, of course, William Shakespeare. Then of course, things can get ugly. Brönte Sisters power dolls, we’re looking at you: Also of note, though not action-capable, is this delightful and beautifully crafted series of Little Giants vinyl toys by Jailbreak Collective, available in a few collections: Writers (Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Willam Shakespeare and… read article

A subversive cartography of subjective perceptions of the Old World.