…originally published in 1981, the codex seraphinianus is an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by the italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978. The book is approximately 360 pages long (depending on edition), and written in a strange, generally unintelligible alphabet…
i had never heard of this fascinating book before, although the morphing crocodile image i have seen before, see also this article
spotted around town this week, some wonderful ‘drippy’ type, no idea who made it… couldn’t find a credit, anyone?
how great is this: artist mica angela hendricks draws heads then gives her sketchbook to her four-year old daughter to collaborate on the drawings and finish off the bodies…
really interesting typographic trick in this plugin for web called ‘beeline reader’; which essentially creates a series of gradients in text to aid (and speed up) reading…
(thanks to jeroen disch for the tip)
circular projection as a solution to the ever-growing complexity of underground train networks and how to represent them in diagrams
(thanks to my mate steve for the link)