Everyday,
Invented.

ILLUSTRATED HISTORIES OF THE EVERYDAY

The world you know.
Stories you don't.

Look a little closer at the things around you.
There are centuries of ideas hiding in plain sight.

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THE OBJECT CABINETCHOOSE SOMETHING FAMILIAR ↓
IN THE RESEARCH NOTEBOOK

A room, after dark.

A proposed story about making dependable indoor light practical.

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Watch the story.Understand the idea.Keep a little curiosity.

A WORLD OF STORIES

Everyday is
just the beginning.

One channel. Many ways to look
at the world around you.

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Comfort & everyday life

The systems that make our homes feel ordinary.

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Seeing & communicating

The tools we use to capture and share the world.

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Tools & machines

The ideas inside objects we rarely stop to notice.

See how we tell their stories →

THE FEATURED FILM

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Air Conditioning illustrated documentary coverWATCH ON YOUTUBE 11 MIN
AVAILABLE NOW

How we learned
to change the air.

From earlier cooling to the humidity problem inside a Brooklyn printing plant: a familiar machine with an unfamiliar past.

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THE EVERYDAY, INVENTED BOOKSHELF

Stories
worth
keeping.

BEYOND THE SCREEN

Watch it.
Explore it.
Read it again.

Illustrated companions bring the history, diagrams and sources together in a form you can keep. Start with the free Air Conditioning sample.

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A CHANNEL FOR THE CURIOUS

Good stories start
with a better question.

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