Lars Horn on the Intimate History Between Skin and Ink

Lars Horn on the Intimate History Between Skin and Ink

“To write was, and still is, in some sense, to tattoo, to ink script upon skin.”

By Lars Horn | June 6, 2022

The 17 Best Book Covers of May

The 17 Best Book Covers of May

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What One American Learnt From Restoring His Family’s English Castle

What One American Learnt From Restoring His Family’s English Castle

Hopwood DePree in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 2, 2022

Secrets of the Book Designer: On Typography, Painting, and Finding That Single Visual Moment

Secrets of the Book Designer: On Typography, Painting, and Finding That Single Visual Moment

Peter C. Baker and Linda Huang on Making the Cover for Planes

By Peter C. Baker | May 31, 2022

On the Radical, Popular Creator of the First Female Superhero

On the Radical, Popular Creator of the First Female Superhero

How June Tarpé Mills Captured Audiences

By Tracy Dawson | May 25, 2022

Defending My Gender: Illustrating a Very Bad Therapy Session

Defending My Gender: Illustrating a Very Bad Therapy Session

From Emma Grove’s New Memoir The Third Person

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Alan Lee on Illustrating J.R.R. Tolkien’s <em>The Lord of the Rings</em>

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The Unique Challenge of Designing a Book by Incarcerated Writers

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Caits Meissner and Melissa Joskow on The Sentences that Create Us

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On Building Cities for Women and the Early Days of Feminist Architecture

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