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The Art House Co-op is an "independent, Brooklyn-based company that organizes global, collaborative art projects." Each year they gather thousands of creative people to amass The Sketchbook Project. The crowd-sourced project is a traveling and interactive library displaying unique artists' journals, representing more than 130 countries over the course of the project.

Simon Ålander had a black skateboard lying around and decided he needed to do something about it. The Swedish designer has a talent for hand-lettering and enjoys using a combination of analog and digital techniques to create his typographic designs. He knew lettering was the answer, and his New York hand-drawn script combines skate culture with contrasting letterforms and flourishes.

NYC-based designer and letterer Jeff Rogers creates beautiful and playful letters and word-based illustrations. Feast your eyes on some of his hand-lettering portfolio, where his transforms words into pieces of typographic art:

This first-person video experience reminds us to stay curious and to explore surroundings—don't merely go with the flow, affect its ebb and venture beyond the known. The Future Belongs to the Curious comes to us from Skillshare—a community marketplace to learn anything from anyone, who encourages anyone and everyone to be lifelong learners.