The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
—Mahatma Gandhi
19 July 2013
18 July 2013
17 July 2013
Counting with your hands…
(somewhere in 18th-century Italy)
I stumbled across these lovely images today… from an 18th century Italian book entitled Scoperta della chironomia, ossia, Dell’arte di gestire con le mani by Vicenzo Requeno, a Spanish monk living in Italy. The book examines the gestural techniques as recounted in various Greek and Latin authors, concentrating on representing numbers with the hand.
(source)
15 July 2013
A Swede in France…
Paris, France
Lovisa Burfitt caught my eye. She’s a Swedish illustrator based in France, drawing fashion, accessories, food, make-up, travels, flowers, objects/interiors and more…
14 July 2013
TYPE EH*
Vancouver, Canada
* “An underdog to North American Culture and overshadowed by Britain, we have been searching for our own National Identity. Steeped in history, diversity, and compassion it’s time we celebrated on home turf.”
These are from a collection of student-designed type posters celebrating things Canadian…
13 July 2013
11 July 2013
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
—Albert Einstein
10 July 2013
Reading is bliss.
Selkirk, Manitoba
Nearly a year ago I chanced across this Nora Ephron “quotable” on Facebook. Lauraine Twilley, a librarian friend, mentioned she would love to have a poster of it… well, here you go, Rainey.
To download a small (106 KB PDF) with both black and white poster versions suitable for printing, click here.