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Graphic and information designer Ladislav Sutnar designed the visual identity and store graphics for Carr’s shopping plaza in New Jersey in 1956. Through color, symbols, movement, and paper cutouts, Sutnar shows how play can spark creativity and . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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Ladislav Sutnar: Playful Department Store Design

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In 1967, graphic designer Roger Cook and his firm partner Don Shanosky worked with the Department of Transportation and the American Institute of Graphic Arts to create universal symbols for airports and train stations ahead of the U.S. Bicentennial.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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Roger Cook: Tweaking a Symbol for Lost & Found

Join MTA Arts & Design and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum for a special conversation celebrating the opening of MTA Arts and Design’s In Service: MTA Photographs by Christopher Payne and the closing of Cooper Hewitt’s Made in America: . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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The Inside Track: Christopher Payne on Photographing the MTA

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Album cover featuring a portrait beside the text “MIKE HURLEY” and “FIRST SONGS” on a paneled background.
Folkways Reissues "Freak Folk" Legend Michael Hurley's Debut Album First Songs
Announcing the LP reissue of singular “godfather of freak folk” Michael Hurley’s debut album First Songs. First Songs is available for pre-order now, and will be released on November 6.
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A grid of postage stamps featuring various writers. Each row repeats a set of names: Brodsky, Brooks, Williams, Hayden, Plath, Bishop, Stevens, Levertov, Cummings, Roethke. The stamps include monochrome portraits and each writer's name.
Poets and Prose: Representations of Literary Figures by USPS
The United States Postal Service has three principal stamp issues devoted specifically to poets. As we look at the Forever Twentieth-Century Poets (2012) series of stamps recognizing influential literary voices . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
National Postal Museum
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Dalmatian dog with fluffy white material arranged around its head against a plain background.
See the Impressive Winning Images of Adorable, Somber and Commanding Canines From the 2026 Dog Photography Awards
Posing pit bulls, stoic galgos and frisbee-chasing Aussies feature among the annual competition’s prize winners
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A statue of a bearded man next to a brick sidewalk
An Arson Investigation Is Underway After a Suspected ‘Senseless Act of Vandalism’ Destroys a Newly Installed Benjamin Harrison Statue
The 3D-printed piece was created by students and faculty at Indiana University Indianapolis and had been installed on September 16
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Portrait surrounded by woven-hair flowers
Dozens of Curious Artworks Created With Woven Strands of Human Hair Come to New York’s Morbid Anatomy Library
So-called hairworks were popularized during the Victorian era as a means of grieving the deceased
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