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What Would These Iconic Movies Look Like As Books?

What Would These Iconic Movies Look Like As Books?

Matt Stevens on Bringing Vintage Book Cover Charm to Some of His Favorite Films

By Matt Stevens | April 29, 2025

Advertising as Art: How Literary Magazines Pioneered a New Kind of Graphic Design

Advertising as Art: How Literary Magazines Pioneered a New Kind of Graphic Design

Allison Rudnick on the Rise and Fall of the 19th Century "Literary Poster"

By Allison Rudnick | April 3, 2024

“I Was a Seventeen-Year-Old Pornographer.” Steven Heller on His Stint as Art Director of the Underground

“I Was a Seventeen-Year-Old Pornographer.” Steven Heller on His Stint as Art Director of the Underground

“Art direction was a mighty dangerous job.”

By Steven Heller | October 21, 2022

Fury Made Visible: Call and Response for Civil Rights through Graphic Design

Fury Made Visible: Call and Response for Civil Rights through Graphic Design

Silas Munro on the Intentional Aesthetic of a Revolution

By Silas Munro | September 21, 2022

W.E.B. Du Bois in Paris: The Exhibition That Shattered Myths About Black America

W.E.B. Du Bois in Paris: The Exhibition That Shattered Myths About Black America

On the Aesthetics of Research

By Jacqueline Francis and Stephen G. Hall | December 12, 2019

A Brief History of Personalized Bookplates

A Brief History of Personalized Bookplates

An Effective Way to Keep Track of Your Books, or an Indulgent Affectation?

By Princeton Architectural Press | September 27, 2019

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