The Met releases 500+ free art books for download

Over 5000 years of art history has just been made available online for free by New York’s biggest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As well as releasing more than 400,000 artworks for personal and commercial use, the Met has made over 500 free art books available for your…
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Daniel Swanick
April 13, 2018
Art & DesignWeb

100,000 banned books are used to build a full-size Parthenon

The Parthenon was built in the mid-5th century BCE and dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena the Virgin. However, this full-size German replica is constructed out of 100,000 banned books as a symbol of resistance to political repression. 
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Daniel Swanick
July 17, 2017
Art & Design

Clever campaign for erotic books gets around censorship

How can you create an advertising campaign for a series of erotic books without getting dealing with censorship? That was the challenge for Brussels-based communications agency Mortierbrigade.
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Daniel Swanick
January 5, 2017
AdvertisingHumourSex

Old books turned into fairytale sculptures

We often think of pop-up books as a simple way to entertain kids (or at least we did before the iPad came along). However, they can be so much more than that. When done well, pop-up books can be engaging, imaginative, and even works of artistic brilliance. If you want…
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Daniel Swanick
November 29, 2016
Art & Design

Make reading magical with glow-in-the-dark bookmarks

Want to find your book in the dark? These bookmarks glow in the dark after briefly being exposed to light.
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Daniel Swanick
September 19, 2016
Art & DesignTechnology & Innovation

Vintage books transformed into mountain landscapes

If you're a lover of vintage books, then you might want to shy away from this.
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Daniel Swanick
March 28, 2016
Art & Design

10 steps to becoming the perfect graphic designer

If you haven’t heard of Medium, it’s a site where you can read, write, and interact with millions of ideas and stories from around the world.  10 Steps To Becoming The Perfect Graphic Designer is a humorous tongue-in-cheek post by Philadelphia-based designer Patrick Macomber that should give…
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Daniel Swanick
August 17, 2015
Graphic DesignHumourTips

Plant this eco-friendly tree book to regrow a tree

A small book publisher in Argentina is offering a book that can grow back into a tree after you’re done reading it.
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Daniel Swanick
June 2, 2015
Technology & InnovationVideo
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