Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All, a new book from Rubik’s Cube inventor Erno Rubik, set to launch in September
Erno Rubik, the inventor of the Rubik’s Cube, has written his first book called Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All.
Available from September – and launched in the Cube’s 40th anniversary year – Cubed sees Rubik detail his journey to creating the iconic Cube, as well as covering the art of creativity, playfulness and invention.
The book also sees Rubik make a case for the importance of being an amateur, discuss the inevitability of problems during any act of invention and share what he thinks it means to be a true creator.
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