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Copyright-free Victorian novel etexts, including Dickens, Eliot, Collins, Hardy, James, Trollope
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Jon Klassen & Marc Craste’s animated BBC Winter Olympics spot
Chroma: design, architecture and art in color
Japanese convenience stores: a photo essay by Joe Morgan-Payler
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Genius concept: The little black dress shop
Sandra Juto
Pleasure principle
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Old-timey banjo player Frank Fairfield’s Daytrotter session
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