Norman Brosterman

Flying cities...rocketships...monorails...robots...bubble-topped cars...these are the visions of a select group of American designers, illustrators, and artists who, from the 1890s to the mid-1960s, devoted their talents to portraying the future. In Out of Time�both the book and the accompanying traveling exhibition sponsored by SITES (the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit

This is the first comprehensive book about the original kindergarten, a revolutionary educational program for children that was invented in the 1830s by the charismatic German educator Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852) and grew to become a familiar institution throughout the world by the end of the nineteenth century. Using extraordinary visual material, it reconstructs the most successful system for

Established in the 1830s by German educator Friedrich Froebel, Kindergarten was designed to teach young children about art, design, mathematics, and natural history. Norman Brosterman demonstrates how Kindergarten went on to influence modern culture through design, modern art and toys. A New York Times Notable Book, Inventing Kindergarten uses extraordinary visual materials to reconstruct this suc

Design, popular culture, history, art, manga, and comics come together in this visual self-portrait of modern Japan, illustrated by events and developments depicted in traditional Japanese board games known as sugoroku. This dazzling collection is a gateway to an influential art form little known outside Japan. Sugoroku themes included nearly every aspect of Japanese society, including history and