In Now Is Better, visual artist and world-renowned designer Stefan Sagmeister (Beauty, with Jessica Walsh) sets out to convince readers that, despite our present-day challenges, we are living in a vastly improved world when compared to the past. Sagmeister's art--combining classic works of Western art history with a modern sense of color, bold shapes, and design--accompanies short essays that point out the growth of humanity over time: we live longer, experience less hunger, have come to favor peace over war, and value democracy over dictatorships.
Sagmeister, who never negates the challenges of the present day, invites readers to consider a new way of framing those challenges within a larger historical and modern context. With full-color art, gilded edges, and in a softcover binding with a decorative slipcover, Now Is Better is a visually and intellectually stunning work of art from start to finish. --Kerry McHugh, freelance writer