About 69 percent of the global diet is “foreign,” says a study that pinpoints the origin of 151 food crops.

Calling all map enthusiasts: the North American Cartographic Information Society will soon be releasing the 2018 Atlas of Design.

In 1974, the American home goods retailer Best Products opened a new location in Houston, Texas.

The designer Louise Harpman and the architect Scott Specht are both coffee connoisseurs, but not in the way you might expect.

Beautiful animated photography of crashing waves.

The pioneering designer William Addison Dwiggins had a famously good sense of humor. In the mid-1920s, though, he went through a period when he couldn't pick up a newspaper without getting at least a little frustrated. Not necessarily at the news-although some of that was bad, too-but at the typeface it was printed in.

Imagine taking a quiet stroll through the expansive wilderness of Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, New York. You're surrounded by a forest of oak trees, stony ridges, and a tranquil lake-completely isolated and alone in nature. But in 1918, visitors to the 1,146-acre park were unaware that they were in the company of a group of women hiding among the rocks, trees, and grass.