The Pegleg Givewaway

Unlock the secrets of NYC with an interactive guidebook and iPhone app

Anyone who grew up reading the Choose Your Own Adventure book series will delight in Italian publisher Whaiwhai‘s take on interactive storytelling. Part guidebook, part game, each book unlocks secrets to the city as you unravel the mystery page by page. The latest town to go under the microscope is New York, told by Big Apple aficionado Timothy Speed Levitch—star of the 1998 documentary The …

Susan Hiller

"Paraconceptual" art in Susan Hiller's new comprehensive book

Both intimate and cosmic in scope, as described by critic Lucy Lippard, Susan Hiller’s ruminative multimedia works are the result of a career change from anthropology to art forty years ago. The U.K.-based artist, thinking of her discipline as “value-free,” experiments with sculpture, photography, painting and more, letting the subject dictate media to give her abstract theories form. A through-line in Hiller’s works is what …

Megan Herbert Wall Stickers

Skeletons, shadow puppets and more in an illustrator's new line of playful wall adhesives

When Megan Herbert was renovating her apartment she found herself drawing “pictures and little things straight onto the walls themselves.” Now the Reykjavik-based illustrator has a better option in her eight different removable wall decals by The Wall Sticker Company. With Art Deco style, “Waterfall” wraps around door frames and other corners, complete with stylized swimmers. An all-over print consisting of birds, butterflies and flowers …