(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.

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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…

(quote by Bill McKibben | poster by Chaz Maviyane-Davies)

Shepard Fairey’s “Obama” posters (in reverse chronological order)…

Thanks to Matt Warburton for the link from the TED Blog… (source).

Cape Coppermine, Manitoba

I’m excited by the opportunity of learning how to fly fish… (I successfully bid on a handmade graphite fly rod at a recent Concordia Foundation gala fundraising auction; the rod came complete with personal instruction by master angler James Skeoch Townsend, and a full day of guided smallmouth bass fishing “with boat, reel and line, fishing flies, and lunch provided).”

I used to be an avid fisherman (before I took up climbing two decades ago), but I never had the opportunity to learn fly fishing — should be fun!

At some point last week this link crossed my desktop… a lovely collection of cautionary poster images (many more at the link).

To whoever sent me this link, apologies… let me know and I’ll give you source credit here.

London, UK

In 2010, Fletcher Studio was set up by Alan’s daughter, Raffaella Fletcher, to manage the archive of her famous father’s work. The archive is now online, and Raffaella has given me permission to post some samples of Alan’s work here… please note that everything shown here and on the website at alanfletcherarchive.com is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties around the world.

View much more of Alan Fletcher’s beautiful graphic design work (and descriptions for the images shown above) here.

Thanks to Ronald Shakespear, a mutual friend from Argentina, for bringing the Alan Fletcher Archive to my attention.

Zwolle, Netherlands

Redmer Hoekstra creates fanciful drawings of a strange world where nothing familiar is quite as it seems. See more of his morphed visions in pen and pencil here and here.