The Fantastical Kelly Link & Designing Better Mondays

Studio 360 | Feb 25, 2015

Kelly Link re-read classic children’s fantasy while she was getting her MFA; now her acclaimed short stories are breaking the wall of genre between fantasy and literary fiction. A new and surprisingly popular trend in music videos takes out all the images, showing you nothing but a song’s lyrics. Also, you asked us to redesign one of the worst parts of everyday life: Mondays. But can design actually make Mondays joyful?

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