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Established in 1867, the D.A. Sanborn National Insurance Diagram Bureau compiled and published city maps for the fire insurance industry for more than a hundred years. The attention to detail coming out of that Manhattan office went far beyond city blocks and plots of land, however. Take a close look at the typography and overall design aesthetic of these amazing title pages. Many more examples here. Absolutely beautiful.
Via BibliOdyssey.
An Irish artist currently based in Berlin, Enda O'Donoghue scours social media sites and blogs to find the perfect images for his oil on canvas paintings. What's the perfect image? To O'Donoghue, it's the throwaway digital shot that would otherwise be buried forever on hard drives, camera chips, mobile phones, or uploaded and then forgotten someplace online. Each painting starts with tracking down the owner of the digital photo and obtaining permission. Next, O'Donoghue meticulously breaks down each image and then reconstructs it, digital warts and all, on a large canvas. The end result is a series of random images connected only by O'Donoghue's process and artistic style.
Via Moco Loco.
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