Last year, I assigned my first year illustration students to create a botanical, diagrammatical illustration (thinly veiling my proclivities toward science-ish, or science-looking things). I found out that at the same time, the second and third year students had been given the same assignment by teacher/designer/artist/bookmaker Ellen McMahon, only Ellen had an incredibly interesting and [...]
National Geographic just released their Top Lists of 2009, and my favorite is the Top Ten Discoveries, one of which includes this six-inch barreleye fish with a transparent head. Awesome. Well, while we’re looking at lists, Wired Magazine recently posted 1,000 Comic Books everyone must read. More books I haven’t yet read but NPR says [...]