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The Laws of Simplicity
John Maeda's ten laws of simplicity, from Reduce and Organize to The One, each distilled into a single line with a small…
The Life and Times of Evelyn Lambart
The National Film Board of Canada profiles Evelyn Lambart, the country's first woman animator and Norman McLaren's partn…
The Life and Work of Tom Seidmann-Freud
The Freud Museum on Sigmund Freud's niece Tom Seidmann-Freud, an inventive children's book illustrator of Weimar Berlin…
The Limits of Computational Photography
An engineer tries to photograph fine laser etching on optical equipment and discovers how smartphone image processing in…
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The Mad Men of Mid-Century Modern Design
A photo-led post built around the 1961 Playboy portrait of Nelson, Wormley, Saarinen, Bertoia, Eames and Risom posing wi…
The Making of Prince's Symbol
Animator Dale Hughes recounts building Prince's love symbol as 1990s 3D computer graphics, with sketches, renders, album…
The man who collects lost pet posters
A feature on punk drummer Don Bolles and his one-of-a-kind collection of lost pet posters, and what these handmade pleas…
The Manhoff Archive
A long-hidden collection of color photographs from Stalin's Soviet Union, taken by an American diplomat's family, brings…
The map that keeps Burning Man honest
How Burning Man inspects the desert after the event and publishes an annual map of litter, turning Leave No Trace from a…
The Marginalian - Marginalia on our search for meaning
Maria Popova's long-running essay archive exploring literature, art, science, and philosophy.
The Moral Impetus of Tove Jansson
An essay on Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomins, tracing how her island life, paintings and children's books carry a qu…
The Most Honored Photograph
Roger Cicala tells the story of an unremarkable-looking WWII reconnaissance photo taken by a nine-man crew that may be t…
The Most Mario Colors
A designer digs into the colors that define Mario across decades of games, showing the palette swatches and explaining w…
The New Swiss Passport Series
How the Swiss studio RETINAA designed Switzerland's 2022 passport, with Alpine landscapes, hidden UV artwork and securit…
The Niepce Heliograph
The Harry Ransom Center's page on the Niepce heliograph, the earliest surviving camera photograph, a view from a window…
The No Twinkie Database
Game designer Ernest Adams's long catalogue of classic video game design blunders, from unskippable cutscenes to stupid…
The Octo-Bouncer
A maker's write-up of a hypnotic machine that keeps a steel ball bouncing on a tilting plate using a camera and eight mo…
The Oldest Representations of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms
A rock art study of Saharan cave paintings from 9000-7000 years ago, including the Tassili mushroom figures, argued to b…
The Poetry and Brief Life of a Foxconn Worker
Translations of poems by Xu Lizhi, a young Foxconn assembly-line worker in Shenzhen who died in 2014, with notes on his…
The Send Off
Translator Emily Wilson explains why the hardest words to translate in Homer are often the ordinary ones, not the fancy…
The Seventeen Deaths That Changed Iran
An interview with photographer Azadeh Akhlaghi about her staged, cinematic reconstructions of seventeen deaths that shap…
The Shape of Apps
Icon designer Louie Mantia traces how Mac app icons lost their distinctive silhouettes to uniform rounded squares, and w…
The Shining Analysis by Rob Ager
Rob Ager's in-depth analysis of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, picking apart the impossible hotel layout, mirrors, mazes…
The Silver Swan Story
The story of the 1774 Silver Swan automaton at the Bowes Museum, a clockwork bird that preens and catches a fish, and it…
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