I never tire of the conceptual trick of applying the metaphor of a map onto something non-geographical.

If you can photograph the architecture of the original builders in the animal kingdom with the same professional clarity and precision used to photograph human architecture, you'll see that the… Read the rest of the article: Magnificent structures built by architects from the animal kingdom

This will take some 'splaining. This is a series of 6 graphic novels based on the novel by Philip K. Dick that became the seminal movie Blade Runner. But the… Read the rest of the article: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – A graphic novel of Philip K. Dick's original story that inspired Blade Runner

Let us enter a world we had no idea existed, a curious scene that is fast disappearing, a culture significantly remote from our own experiences to truly be exotic, but… Read the rest of the article: African Kings: Portraits of a Disappearing Era

Style and design, as in music and food, is idiosyncratic and personal. What inspires one person is merely a shrug for another. My preference is for a minimal style, but… Read the rest of the article: Marian Bantjes – Ornate designs that are utterly inspiring and ingenious

Edward Tufte has made his career teaching us how to create compelling factual illustrations. He follows his own advice in his four exquisitely designed books which he has self-published over… Read the rest of the article: Visual Explanations – Tufte's best book

You gotta be in the right mood to enter this dark small book. But it is unlike anything else you've seen. The author was a guard in the Soviet Union's… Read the rest of the article: Drawings from the Gulag – Ink drawings of the Soviet gulag's horrors, perversions and peculiarities

This is the best atlas of human anatomy there is. Every other anatomy atlas I've ever seen (and I've seen dozens) pales in comparison.

I own about 250 photo books. Currently, Genesis is my favorite. It presents hundreds of stunning black and white photos of uninhabited or tribally inhabited regions of the planet made… Read the rest of the article: Genesis – photo book that acts like a time machine taking you back to the beginning of the planet

Disruptive Pattern Material: in plain words: camouflage. This massive tome features 5,000 images of all things camouflaged, from silly camouflage fashion (bikinis and handbags), to camouflage in contemporary ads, movies,… Read the rest of the article: Disruptive Pattern Material: definitive work of all things camouflage

Take the infrastructure of any large city. Take New York City, for example. The dozens of systems NYC depends on to thrive – water works, trains, bridges, mail, cargo, electrical,… Read the rest of the article: The Works – A tour of New York's infrastructures inside and underneath