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Founded in 2011, The Public Domain Review is an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. In particular, as our name sugggests, the focus is on works which have now fallen into the public domain, that vast commons of out-of-copyright material that everyone is free to enjoy, share, and build upon without restriction. Our aim is to promote and celebrate the public domain in all its abundance and variety, and help our readers explore its rich terrain – like a small exhibition gallery at the entrance to an immense network of archives and storage rooms that lie beyond. With a focus on the surprising, the strange, and the beautiful, we hope to provide an ever-growing cabinet of curiosities for the digital age, a kind of hyperlinked Wunderkammer – an archive of content which truly celebrates the breadth and diversity of our shared cultural commons and the minds that have made it. The Shop

Art & Design Liu Bolin is an artist who camouflages himself to blend almost seamlessly into various backgrounds in the city. You have to have some serious peepers to be able to spot the dude. To be honest, continue reading... More Art & Design This is a photoseries called The Ugly Truth by photographer Rut Mackel. Face it, unless you’re on your umpteenth “Whole 30″ challenge, you’re bound to be consuming some pretty nasty chemicals…and that’s just what you eat. More Art & Design Food If you ever get lost in New York, don’t stop and ask for directions because New Yorkers can be real dicks. More Art & Design Home Valentine’s Day is coming up and you know what that means — love is in the air! More Art & Design Food Tech Etsy seller Rachel Anderson has painted up a series of Geeky Nesting Dolls. Let everyone else crowd in the Hallmark aisle come mid-February. This is a series called Disney Dwellings by B for Bel. Strange Fruit is a photoseries by designer Sarah Illenberger. Mikhail Bopposov is an artist.

VentureBeat | Tech. People. Money. Interesting, Easy, Beautiful, True? I’ve been doing a few interviews to promote my book, The Visual Miscellaneum, and a question keeps coming up. What makes good information design? This is the point where I go a bit glassy. To be honest, I don’t know. I am unschooled in both information (I was a college dropout) and design (I am a self-taught designer). I’ve never really thought about it. So, I made a nice cup of tea and had a think and came up with this. To me, these seem like the key components of a good infographic / data visualisation / piece of information design. Information needs to be interesting (meaningful & relevant) and have integrity (accuracy, consistency).Design needs to have form (beauty & structure) and function (it has to work and be easy to use). You may disagree. Something surprised me about doing this though. In information design, it seems, if you have just two elements, you get something tolerable and cool. i.e. integrity + form = eye candyinterestingness + function = experiment What do you think?