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How Florence Nightingale Saved Lives Through Her Data Visualisation

How Florence Nightingale Saved Lives Through Her Data Visualisation

The pioneer of professional nursing fomented change with cutting-edge statistics ...
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Illustrated Lists of Great Writers and Artists

Illustrated Lists of Great Writers and Artists

From Picasso's best artists to fining love in New York City, lists make sense of the incomprehensible ...
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Compliments of Chicago – Gang Business Cards from the 1970s and 1980s

Compliments of Chicago – Gang Business Cards from the 1970s and 1980s

In the 1970s and 1980s, gangs in Chicago advertised their presence and membership on business cards. This was criminality with a dash of style and wit. ...
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Nuclear Reactor Wall Charts – 1956-1998

Nuclear Reactor Wall Charts – 1956-1998

How to design a nuclear reactor - an illustrated rough guide ...
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Taishō Era Posters: Modernism In Japan, 1912 to 1926

Taishō Era Posters: Modernism In Japan, 1912 to 1926

These posters date from Japan's Taishō era (大正時代 Taishō jidai?) - July 30, 1912, to December 25, 1926, coinciding with the reign of the Emperor Taishō. ...
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The London Airport Official Guide, 1956 – Illustrated by Feliks Topolski  and Cullen Gordon

The London Airport Official Guide, 1956 – Illustrated by Feliks Topolski and Cullen Gordon

As well as the 'official' guides published by the airport themselves other publishers got in on the act and this is one of the once numerous booklets issued by Pitkin Pictorials. ...
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Hobo Symbols From The Great Depression : The Secret Language Of America’s Itinerant Workers

Hobo Symbols From The Great Depression : The Secret Language Of America’s Itinerant Workers

60 hobo signs, used in the Great Depression by transient working class men and women who traveled by train, looking for jobs and sustenance ...
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Marilyn Monroe Stars In The Brilliant  Day-Glo Designers Guide – 1969

Marilyn Monroe Stars In The Brilliant Day-Glo Designers Guide – 1969

The Day-Glo Corporation produced this lush coil-bound book in 1969 to showcase their latest line of fluorescent inks. ...
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The Groovy Letter People Who Taught You to Read – 1968

The Groovy Letter People Who Taught You to Read – 1968

In 1968, NDE Inc. caught the fashion for psychedelic, day-glo design. It's flashcards for the groovy, kaleidoscopic Letter People alphabet epitomised the assisted high of bold, trippy art. ...
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Machinalia : Boris Artzybasheff’s Fantastic Visions of Living Machines

Machinalia : Boris Artzybasheff’s Fantastic Visions of Living Machines

Boris Artzybasheff's surreal anthropomorphic creations ...
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Buy Prints Schwing! Photos London In The 1960s By Bob Hyde

Schwing! Photos London In The 1960s By Bob Hyde

Bob Hyde's lush photographs of London's West End are quintessentially 1960s ...
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The Look of the Bauhaus Book: How the Radical Weimar Design School Sold its New Program for the Arts

The Look of the Bauhaus Book: How the Radical Weimar Design School Sold its New Program for the Arts

In order to make the sustained case for the “new system,” Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy began a book series in 1923 when the school acquired its own publishing house. ...
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