We have an all-star team of designers at TNW, working hard to make sure our website always looks exceptionally fresh. One of our recent additions to the team is Ashley Evans, and even without knowing ...

When Poe’s 1908 collection of short stories, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, was reprinted in 1919, a copy of the “deluxe” edition would cost you 5 guineas (in today’s money, that’s about 300 USA ...

From a much larger collection of anatomical literature and drawings at Heidelberg University comes this surprisingly beautiful illustration by Elisa Schorn. It was Schorn’s use of color, and her ...

When it comes to getting daily inspiration from all things fashion, I cannot be satisfied with simply flipping through magazines and following fashion blogs alone. Fashion is, after all, an art form.

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. These plates come from an 1833 ...

Artist Caitlin Russell’s “The Outer Sun” series pairs her carefully composed works with descriptions of theories of the universe, present and past, believable and absurd. For the above image, the ...

If you zoomed in on this picture, you could make out thousands of interconnected ellipses. Mathematical artist Hamid Naderi Yeganeh created them using a series of formulas that he devised and ...

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