Todd Forsgren grew up bird watching and admiring Tory Peterson’s Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America and John James Audubon’s Monograph, Birds of America. Back then, Audobon shot birds, and used pins and wires to distort them into the positions (quite dramatic) that eventually gathered praise in England and beyond. […]
How beautiful is that library? I know that the conventional thought is that little identical cubes (in this case, even sterile little identical cubes) can be bad for morale in the workplace etc., but I would love to work in a building this beautiful. Look at all the Lamosca stuff here.
Photographer Andrew Zuckerman’s strikingly detailed images of animals from around the world are as delightful as they are inspiring. This collection of astonishing studio portraits of 175 wild creatures from baby leopards to parrots, bears, mandrills, and many more are stunningly foregrounded against white backgrounds, depicting their subjects with rare sensitivity, insight, humor, and wonder. […]
Grain Edit has a great slideshow of images from the children’s book Henri’s Walk to Paris, which was illustrated in 1962 by designer Saul Bass. Leonore Klein wrote the text.
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