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The Colours of the Middle Ages
How were colours made in the Middle Ages? This exhibit explains medieval pigments and dyes from plants, animals and mine…
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The Complex Grid
An illustrated walkthrough of Karl Gerstner's famous grid for Capital magazine: a six-column grid layered on a four-colu…
The Counter-Cartographer Who Mapped Hope
An essay recovering the story of Louise E. Jefferson, a pioneering Black American mapmaker whose illustrated maps of Afr…
The Creative Independent
A resource of interviews and essays with working artists and writers about creative practice, offering candid advice on…
The Demoscene as UNESCO Heritage in Sweden
An account of how Sweden recognized the demoscene, the subculture of computer art and music, as national UNESCO cultural…
The Dirt
The official blog of the American Society of Landscape Architects, covering park design, green infrastructure, and how l…
The Double Helix Staircase at Chambord
A look at the double helix staircase at the heart of the Chateau de Chambord, two intertwined flights attributed to Leon…
The Doves Type
The story of the Doves Press typeface, which its co-founder threw into the River Thames to keep from his partner, and ho…
The Fractal Nature of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
A behind-the-scenes look at the visual effects of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, covering the fractal design of Ego and…
The Global Warming Blanket
A climate scientist crochets a blanket where each stripe is a year's global temperature, turning a warming-stripes chart…
The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils, 1952-1967
A 20-minute history of how Tombow and other Japanese makers raced to build the world's best pencils from 1952 to 1967, w…
The Golden Ass of Apuleius
A richly illustrated online edition of Apuleius's ancient Roman novel about a man turned into a donkey, with graphics wo…
The hardest working font in Manhattan
A lovingly illustrated essay about the segmented lettering on New York signage, with interactive type specimens and a de…
The Hell Harp of Hieronymus Bosch
An experimental musician explains how he built a real playable version of the hellish harp from Bosch's Garden of Earthl…
The History and Significance of Totem Poles
An explainer on totem poles of Alaska Native and Northwest Coast peoples: how they are carved, the animal crests and sto…
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The hotel bathroom puzzle
Alec Nevala-Lee revisits a famous design puzzle from Henry Petroski about hotel bathrooms and uses it to explore why eve…
The Howl Obscenity Trial
A FoundSF history page on the 1957 San Francisco trial over Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl, when Lawrence Ferlinghetti was c…
The Interface of Kai Krause's Software
A design-history essay on the famously strange, tactile interfaces of Kai Krause's Kai's Power Tools and Bryce, and why…
The Key of Hell: an Eighteenth-Century Sorcery Manual
Historian Benjamin Breen pores over the eerie hand-painted illustrations of an 18th-century sorcery manual and tries to…
The Kilopixel
The story of a ridiculous 1000-pixel wooden display built over six years, with the mechanics, mistakes and the quirk tha…
The Kitchen Bladesmith
A longform Craftsmanship Magazine profile of Bob Kramer, the master bladesmith whose obsessive pursuit of the perfect ki…
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The language of stamps
An illustrated essay on the forgotten Victorian and Edwardian code in which the angle and position of a postage stamp on…
The Lascaux Cave Paintings
An illustrated guide to the Lascaux cave in southwestern France, walking through its Palaeolithic paintings of horses, a…
The Last Quiet Thing
A beautifully designed scroll essay built around a twelve-dollar Casio watch, asking what happened when our possessions…
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