asterisk issue 12: books
Four illustrations for Asterisk Magazine’s issue # 12 based on Books.
Art Director: Sarah gephart
Article by Awais Aftab about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, arguing how the DSM is an imperfect but necessary tool that inevitably fails to classify the messy reality of mental illness.
Article by Monica Westin about digitization projects for the world’s print books that seem to promise a universal digital library for reading access on the web. Instead, this future has only arrived for machines, not humans.
Article by Karthik Tadepalli about how productivity growth hasn’t slowed because ideas are getting harder to find, but because markets have become worse at turning strong innovations into broad economic gains.
Article by Afra Wang about Chinese tech entrepreneurs studying from books in the Silicon Valley cannon and building their empires based on those ideas.
