Read about the beautiful form and convenient function of one of books’ most distinctive features Morgan Aronson and Lilla Vekerdy Woodcut initials from Andreas Vesalius’s, De humani corporis fabrica, ...

As you’re racing through a thriller or romance novel, you’re not thinking about the fonts or layout on each page. But a designer has spent hours poring over each element on the page to create the most ...

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. But who knew that books could kill? That’s the premise of an exhibit at Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum that looks at four toxic pigments used for millennia and ...