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Photographer Robert Frank (1924–2019)

Excerpt from NPR: His America was rough around the edges: not the manicured suburbs of TV or magazines but rather well-worn city streets and desolate rural patches dotted with people who were brown and black as well as white. Their presence — diverse and discomfiting to some — raised questions that would later be answered by the civil rights movement, the convergence of countercultural seekers in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, and antiwar protests. Read more: npr.org

Monocle’s favorite recent interviews

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Four interviews featuring: Steven Heller on the art of data visualisation Julius Wiedemann talks about Taschen’s new book Logo Modernism Hester Underhill on the shape of Polish graphic design Michael Bierut shares an essay from his book Now You See It and Other Essays on Design Listen at: monocle.com/radio

Modern Japanese stationery

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Craft Design Technology, founded in 2005, combines “modern design with Japanese heritage of traditional craft and technology innovation.” Learn more: craft-design-technology.com

Photobook documenting the bookmaking process

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Excerpt from Steidl: How does an artist’s dream book become a reality? How is paper made? What do the serpentine spaces of Steidl Publishers look like? How does a bookbinder miraculously transform printed sheets into the proud volumes on your bookshelf? Koto Bolofo reveals all this and more in One Love, One Book, his photo-documentation of the worlds of papermaking, printing and bookbinding. More details: steidl.de