Browsing: Art

From high school dropout to design legend, or what the Oxford English Dictionary has to do with iconic logos.

What an early 20th-century Parisian dandy had to do with political theater and the rise of micro-nonfiction.

Examining street art from a variety of angles, from the artistic to the sociocultural to the political, to glean holistic understanding of the important medium for public dialogue.

What Arab culture has to do with industrial ideals, midcentury design and Victorian hand-lettering.

An illustrated flowchart of creative influences across literature, art, science, film and music, produced for 48-hour magazine Longshot.

Remembering the great Alex Steinweiss, who designed the first illustrated album cover in 1940 and changed the way records were sold.

A fascinating hour-long documentary about China’s most widely known and politically vocal contemporary artist, exploring the role of art in freedom of speech and political activism.

What a 21-point scale of self-confidence has to do with Adolf Konrad’s carry-on and Picasso’s favorite artists.

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

Fascinating 2005 BBC documentary exploring the birth of the individual in modern society.