Pentagram: There Needs To Be More Storytelling In Graphic Design
“Everything we do is about storytelling,” Stout says.
Source Pentagram’s DJ Stout: There Needs To Be More Storytelling In Graphic Design
The cover of Texas Monthly‘s July 1992 issue features an portrait of then governor Ann Richards sitting on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. She’s dressed head to toe white leather, her hair is coiffed in her signature gray bouffant, and she stares confidently at the camera. To DJ Stout, the cover’s designer, this portrait of Richards, 60 years old at the time, was “the perfect metaphor for capturing her salty wit and irreverent personality,” he once wrote. In a fleeting glance, readers knew it wasn’t business as usual at the Texas statehouse. The audacious concept is also one of the perfect examples of Stout’s evocative, eclectic approach to visual design.
40 Famous Authors On Reading | ShortList Magazine
40 Famous Authors On Reading | ShortList Magazine.
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La Amazonia perdida

Un buen día Richard Evans Schultes desapareció de Harvard y vino a perderse en el delirante paisaje de la Amazonia colombiana. Ese viaje de 12 años está retratado en esta historia contada por uno de sus discípulos y en una fantástica colección de fotos.
Why “Psychological Androgyny” Is Essential for Creativity.

“Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too. A predisposition to psychological androgyny.” -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Fritz Kahn: The Little-Known Godfather of Infographics | Brain Pickings
How a German gynecologist transformed science into visual poetry and laid the foundations of modern information graphics.
The Art of Science Learning § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
The Art of Science Learning
Ideas / by Maywa Montenegro /
It’s no secret: American children are behind in math and science, and falling faster by the year. For a group of innovative thinkers gathering in Washington DC, restoring “STEM” in America must go beyond multiplication drills, beyond the latest in computer apps. It’s time to re-imagine science learning altogether, they say: it’s time for wood and clay, watercolor and chalk.
History of cycling: California Map of possible routes.
This map was sold as a folded-in illustration in an 1896 Cycler’s Guide and Road Book of California, which also included seven smaller sectional maps, a list of hoteliers prepared to offer cyclists’ rates, and a directory of “agents and repairers” who might furnish up-to-date information on road conditions.
A 5-Step Technique for Producing Ideas circa 1939 | Brain Pickings
“The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas.”