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  • Kevin Kelly
    9:28 am Mon, Dec 7, 2020
    New, expanded edition of the Recomendo book

    Claudia Dawson, Mark Frauenfelder, and I have gathered 1,000 of our best recommendations featured from our free newsletter, Recomendo and arranged them into a 217-page book. Each recomendo is a brief rave… Read the rest of the article: New, expanded edition of the Recomendo book

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  • Kevin Kelly
    10:00 am Tue, Jan 15, 2019
    My new book, Recomendo, available as a searchable PDF

    The Cool Tools website focuses on handy, useful, proven tools. But a lot of great stuff that Mark and I come across are not really tools. We created the Recomendo… Read the rest of the article: My new book, Recomendo, available as a searchable PDF

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  • Kevin Kelly
    9:23 am Fri, Nov 23, 2018
    Recomendo: A new book with 550 recommendations

    Every week for the past two years, Mark Frauenfelder, Claudia Dawson, and I briefly recommend 6 things to our friends. Sometimes we suggest tools, but most items aren't tools. Rather… Read the rest of the article: Recomendo: A new book with 550 recommendations

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  • Kevin Kelly
    11:28 am Thu, Feb 8, 2018
    John Barlow: Mayor of the Internet

    Barlow (that's what most of his friends called him) flaunted his complexity. He advertised himself as a Republican Deadhead, as a cowboy hacker, a spiritual rationalist, a womanizing feminist, a… Read the rest of the article: John Barlow: Mayor of the Internet

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  • Kevin Kelly
    11:43 am Fri, Apr 21, 2017
    The Playful Eye is a virtual feast of games and visual tricks gathered from around the world

    These vintage cards and old placards display optical illusions, visual witticisms, hidden images, rebuses, and artistic paradoxes from yesteryear. They were the equivalent of Gifs back then — eye candy… Read the rest of the article: The Playful Eye is a virtual feast of games and visual tricks gathered from around the world

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  • Kevin Kelly
    2:01 pm Fri, Mar 3, 2017
    Ideal Boy, An: Charts from India

    Cheap visual charts were the main educational aid in Indian classrooms until recently. Meant to teach children good behavior, and to assist their reading skills, these inexpensive posters were plastered… Read the rest of the article: Ideal Boy, An: Charts from India

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  • Kevin Kelly
    11:03 am Mon, Dec 5, 2016
    A catalog of Indian style and design

    Look, it's Indian design! Everyone has heard of Japanese and Scandinavian design, but few know that India also has a long history of design. It doesn't permeate the culture as… Read the rest of the article: A catalog of Indian style and design

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  • Kevin Kelly
    12:05 pm Thu, Nov 3, 2016
    Cabinet of Natural Curiosities – A treasure trove of exquisite botanical images, copyright free

    Albertus Seba was a Dutch pharmacist working in the early 1700s who collected exotic plants and animals samples that may or may not have medicinal purposes. He crammed his Amsterdam… Read the rest of the article: Cabinet of Natural Curiosities – A treasure trove of exquisite botanical images, copyright free

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  • Kevin Kelly
    9:38 am Mon, Oct 17, 2016
    Japanese Tattoos – Full of traditional and modern designs, characters and history in this photo-heavy book

    My skin doesn't have a single tattoo, but I am touched by the art in tattoos, particularly traditional ones. The Japanese have a long and deep affinity for skin paintings,… Read the rest of the article: Japanese Tattoos – Full of traditional and modern designs, characters and history in this photo-heavy book

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  • Kevin Kelly
    11:34 am Thu, Aug 25, 2016
    How to Wrap Five Eggs is a real inspiration for both designer and maker

    See sample pages from this book at Wink. How to Wrap Five Eggs: Japanese Design in Traditional Packaging by Hideyuki Oka (author) and Michikazu Sakai (photographer) Harper & Row 1967,… Read the rest of the article: How to Wrap Five Eggs is a real inspiration for both designer and maker

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  • Kevin Kelly
    8:37 am Fri, Aug 19, 2016
    The most unusual and beautiful evolutionary tree maps from the last 200 years

    See sample pages from this book at Wink. Trees of Life: A Visual History of Evolution by Theodore W. Pietsch Johns Hopkins University Press 2013, 376 pages, 8 x 10… Read the rest of the article: The most unusual and beautiful evolutionary tree maps from the last 200 years

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  • Kevin Kelly
    10:07 am Sun, Jul 31, 2016
    New Recomendo newsletter, Issue No. 1

    Beginning today, the editors of Cool Tools will be recommending 6 items in an extremely short email every week. Mark, myself, and Claudia — the entire staff of Cool Tools… Read the rest of the article: New Recomendo newsletter, Issue No. 1

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  • Kevin Kelly
    9:55 am Tue, Jul 19, 2016
    Shot in the '70s, North African Villages shows medieval villages unchanged by modernity

    See sample pages from this book at Wink. North African Villages: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia by Norman F. Carver Documan Pr Ltd 1989, 200 pages, 9 x 10.5 x 0.5 inches… Read the rest of the article: Shot in the '70s, North African Villages shows medieval villages unchanged by modernity

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  • Kevin Kelly
    10:48 am Thu, Jul 14, 2016
    In the future you will own nothing and have access to everything

    In 1988 Kevin Kelly (my friend and business partner at Cool Tools) edited Signal, a book about "Communications Tools for the Information Age." With articles about smart phones, artificial life,… Read the rest of the article: In the future you will own nothing and have access to everything

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  • Kevin Kelly
    10:46 am Fri, Jun 24, 2016
    Things Organized Neatly: The Art of Arranging the Everyday

    See sample pages from this book at Wink. Things Organized Neatly: The Art of Arranging the Everyday by Austin Radcliffe Universe 2016, 104 pages, 7.8 x 10 x 0.8 inches… Read the rest of the article: Things Organized Neatly: The Art of Arranging the Everyday

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  • Kevin Kelly
    11:12 am Thu, Apr 28, 2016
    The Sartorialist – NYC stylish strangers happily caught by a candid camera

    See sample pages from this book at Wink. The Sartorialist by Scott Schuman Penguin Books 2009, 512 pages, 5.2 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches (softcover) $19 Buy a copy on… Read the rest of the article: The Sartorialist – NYC stylish strangers happily caught by a candid camera

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  • Kevin Kelly
    2:24 pm Fri, Apr 22, 2016
    Humans of New York – Photos of random strangers in NYC and their life stories

    See sample pages of Humans of New York at Wink. Brendon Stanton started photographing random strangers in New York City in 2010. He treated each of them like a celebrity,… Read the rest of the article: Humans of New York – Photos of random strangers in NYC and their life stories

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  • Kevin Kelly
    8:00 am Mon, Apr 4, 2016
    Street Craft: Yarnbombing, Guerilla Gardening, Light Tagging, Lace Graffiti and More

    See sample pages from this book at Wink. Beyond graffiti. The artists featured in Street Craft apply non-paint to the urban landscape. Instead of spray cans they use yarn, cloth,… Read the rest of the article: Street Craft: Yarnbombing, Guerilla Gardening, Light Tagging, Lace Graffiti and More

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  • Kevin Kelly
    10:43 am Wed, Mar 23, 2016
    Sharks and Dinosaurs – Pop-up books on steroids

    See sample pages from this book at Wink. There are only five "pages" in each of these books despite their 3-inch thickness. That is because each page is stuffed with… Read the rest of the article: Sharks and Dinosaurs – Pop-up books on steroids

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  • Kevin Kelly
    10:22 am Wed, Sep 9, 2015
    Some call Miyazaki's Nausicaa the greatest graphic novel ever

    Some call this the greatest graphic novel ever. I tend to agree. Written and drawn by a young Hayao Miyazaki between 1982 and 1994, his final Japanese manga reached 1,100… Read the rest of the article: Some call Miyazaki's Nausicaa the greatest graphic novel ever

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