When we talk about a “rebrand” in Western art, you might picture a Picasso cubist portrait or Duchamp’s urinal. What often gets overlooked is that Botticelli’s Birth of Venus pulled a similar stunt. To us now, it's just another Renaissance nude. But in 1486, when the
As a designer with a decade working in the field, I’ve often heard peers talk about creativity like it’s magic. As if the muse will descend, bestow her blessings, and voilà! You have your idea. Some prominent creatives even double down on that myth. In her book Big
We’ve all heard of the number π (pi), but have you heard of φ (phi)? It’s just as irrational but, apparently, far more beautiful. Phi, also referred to as the golden ratio, has been haunting artists, architects, and mathematicians for over two thousand years. It’s roughly 1.
This past weekend, I walked into a bookstore looking for books on art, and I walked out with A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I wasn’t planning to buy it. In fact, I wasn’t even thinking about it. But there it was, on top of a table