A labor of love 8 years in the making, featuring contributions by Jane Goodall, Yo-Yo Ma, Jacqueline Woodson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mary Oliver, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, Rebecca Solnit, Elizabeth G…
A loving celebration of sunsets and salamanders, ferns and feathers, mountains and mushrooms, and the whole enchanting aliveness in between.
This striking collection from Siglio is based on a series of images discovered in the catalogs of a Parisian art gallery by a French poet in the '70s
An inventory of cross-disciplinary interestingness, spanning art, science, design, history, philosophy, and more.
Part of what makes the children's books on this list so great is their ability to whisk the young reader into an alternate reality full of possibility
A collaborative labor of love. A letterpress printed tribute to Maria Popova's meditation on 7 things she learned in 7 years of reading, writing, and living posted on Brain Pickings. Having long been fans of Brain Pickings and Maria's work it was a delight to work together to bring her learnings to life! We worked with Uruguayan illustrator and graphic designer Martin Azambuja, who came up with the visual metaphor of a mobile for an added layer of symbolism. "I’m proud and so very excited to reveal the end result of this collaborative labor of love, months in the making — an 18″x24″ letterpress poster printed on thick, sustainable cotton paper, inspired by vintage children’s book illustration and mid-century graphic design."Maria Popova, Creator of Brain Pickings The 7 Lessons: 1. Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind. 2. Do nothing out of guilt, or for prestige, status, money or approval alone. 3. Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. 4. Build pockets of stillness into your life. 5. Maya Angelou famously said, "When people tell you who they are, believe them". But even more importantly, when people try to tell you who you are, don’t believe them. 6. Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. As Annie Dillard memorably put it, “how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” 7. Debbie Millman captures our modern predicament beautifully: “Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time.”
Book cover designs and typography by Edward Gorey (1925-2000) in the collection of Crossett Library, Bennington College.
“Do search. But in order to find other than what it searched for.”
“In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female… The androgynous mind is resonant and porous… naturally creative, incandescent and undivided.” In addition to being one of the greatest writers
Part of what makes the children's books on this list so great is their ability to whisk the young reader into an alternate reality full of possibility
Are you afraid of the dark? In his latest children's book, The Dark, Daniel Handler — who writes under the pen name Lemony Snicket — takes on darkness itself, with the story of a young boy who confronts his biggest fear.
More fluid reflections on keeping a solid center. On October 23, 2006, Brain Pickings was born as a plain-text email to seven friends. It was then, and continues to be, a labor of love and ledger of
By Ibrar Bhatt I have been busy writing my PhD so haven’t updated this blog for a while. Thesis writing is taking up a lot of my mental space as I get the ideas, storyline and contentions to …
The Library of America celebrates Ward's work in "Lynd Ward: Six Novels in Woodcuts," which includes pieces made between 1929 and 1937
An inventory of cross-disciplinary interestingness, spanning art, science, design, history, philosophy, and more.
The Library of America celebrates Ward's work in "Lynd Ward: Six Novels in Woodcuts," which includes pieces made between 1929 and 1937
The Library of America celebrates Ward's work in "Lynd Ward: Six Novels in Woodcuts," which includes pieces made between 1929 and 1937
Maria Popova | “Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.”
By Maria Popova www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/09/wisdom-in-the-age-of-inf...
"John Ruskin (February 8, 1819–January 20, 1900) examined the psychology of why drawing helps us see the world more richly in a fantastic piece unambiguously titled Essay on the Relative Dignity of the Studies of Painting and Music, and the Advantages to be Derived from Their Pursuit, penned when he was only nineteen. It is included in the first volume of the altogether indispensable The Works of John Ruskin (public library | free ebook). It’s a beautiful meditation triply timely today, in an age when we — having succumbed to the “aesthetic consumerism” of photography — are likelier to view the world through our camera phones and likelier still to point those at ourselves rather than at nature’s infinite and infinitely overlooked enchantments. To draw today is to reclaim the dignity and private joy of seeing amid a culture obsessed with looking in public."
