Popular Lies About Graphic Design

Kids coasting in Central Park, ca. 1910-1915

Gorgeous vintage hand-made lantern slide of a protein model by controversial mathematician Dorothy Wrinch, the first woman to receive a Doctor of Science degree from Oxford University, whose seminal work shed light on the molecular structure of proteins.

Behavior of waves, 1962 – one of photographer Berenice Abbott’s minimalist black-and-white vintage imagery artfully capturing the concrete beauty of abstract scientific phenomena. 

This must be the golden age of newly uncovered Beatles photographs – after those by Linda McCartney, Harry Benson, and Beatles tour manager Bob Bonis, a new set emerges from New York photographer Henry Grossman.

Complement with The Beatles’ final photoshoot. 

In 1967, Addams Family creator Charles Addams – who was born 101 years ago today – Illustrated the beloved Mother Goose tales

Parabolic mirror by legendary photographer Berenice Abbott, 1958, part of her fantastic vintage scientific imagery series.

“Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.”

Timeless truth from Simone de Beauvoir, hand-lettered by the inimitable Lisa Congdon, master of visualizing timeless wisdom on life.

Ernst Haeckel’s stunning 19th-century illustrations of microscopic life forms and marine creatures.

Dumb Dots Figure Studies – absolutely stunning pattern drawings by Kerri Augenstein. 

Changing New York – Berenice Abbott’s stunning black-and-white photos from the 1930s

Rare, stunning black-and-white engravings from Anaïs Nin’s 1944 hand-made book Under a Glass Bell, presaging modern self-publishing entrepreneurship.

A call for book donations at the New York Public Library, 1919. Complement with some vintage ads for libraries and reading.

Thelonious Monk, who would’ve been 95 today, by photographer Herman Leonard

A stereoscopic image of a proton anti-proton anihilation event in CERN’s UA5 streamer chamber.