An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Putting 40 Miniature Classics inside a Massive Transportable Guide

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For a design class undertaking, Rachel Walsh, a stu­dent at Cardiff College of Artwork and Design, got down to clarify the con­cept of a Kin­dle to Charles Dick­ens. Rec­og­niz­ing that Dick­ens, a Nineteenth-cen­tu­ry creator, wouldn’t beneath­stand mod­ern phrases like ebooks, down­masses or the inter­internet, she decid­ed to take a metaphor­i­cal strategy. She craft­ed a “guide…

Behold a Digital Restoration of 655 Plates of Roses & Lilies by Pierre-Joseph Redouté: The Biggest Botanical Illustrator of All Time

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Pierre-Joseph Purple­outé made his identify by paint­ing circulation­ers, an obtain­ment impos­si­ble with­out a metic­u­lous­ness that exceeds all bounds of nor­mal­i­ty. He pub­lished his three-vol­ume col­lec­tion Les Ros­es and his eight-vol­ume col­lec­tion Les Lil­i­acées between 1802 and 1824, and a look at their pages immediately vivid­ly sug­gests the painstak­ing nature of each his course of for not simply…