Philip Ball's Patterns in Nature is a jaw-dropping exploration of why the world looks the way it does, with 250 color photographs of the most dramatic examples of the “sheer splendor” of physical ...

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Among the sleek catalogues at the entrance to the Clifton Benevento Gallery sits a tattered hardcover, its paper jacket ripped to reveal the plain binding. This is artist Polly Apfelbaum’s copy of A ...

Have you ever noticed how people tend to sit at the edges in empty rooms? Why the same fashion trends reappear every decade? Or how small decisions made in seconds can shape entire lives? Life is full ...

Many people are using an old kind of road map to find their way back to the past: They are turning to historically inspired pattern books that help people build homes in classical ways, with ...

Last year the New South Wales (NSW) government in south-eastern Australia launched an international competition seeking designs for a new ‘pattern book’ providing ready-made terrace and small-scale ...