This is a genuinely lovely use of machine learning models: provide a prompt for an illustration to print out and colour in.
Mike explains his motivation for building this:
My son’s super into colouring at the moment and I’ve been struggling to find new stuff for him.
These comics by a former Googler give a cumulative insight into the decaying culture there.
There are some beautiful illustrations in this online exhibition of data visualisation in the past few hundred years.
Most days I cook eggs 🍳 and then paint them 🖌. These are those eggs.
Lovely!
But, wait …what’s this?
My favourite condiment with fried eggs is marmite mayo (4 parts mayonnaise to 1 part Marmite).
Okay, now I think this officially qualifies as outsider art.
Scrimshaws and sketches.
Feels like a Zooniverse project waiting to happen.
A really lovely unmonetisable enthusiasm:
All 2,242 illustrations from James Sowerby’s compendium of knowledge about mineralogy in Great Britain and beyond, drawn 1802–1817 and arranged by color.
You can dive in and explore or read more about the project and how it was made.
It reminds me of Paul’s project, Bradshaw’s Guide: the both take a beloved artifact of the past and bring it online with care, love, and respect.
I had the great pleasure of visiting the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp last October. Their vast collection of woodblocks are available to dowload in high resolution (and they’re in the public domain).
14,000 examples of true craftmanship, drawings masterly cut in wood. We are supplying this impressive collection of woodcuts in high resolution. Feel free to browse as long as you like, get inspired and use your creativity.
This book is a beautiful tribute to Cindy.
Several talented illustrators have come together to create a unique book about unique animals. Each contributor has a special connection to the book’s original illustrator, Cindy Li. When she was unable to complete the illustrations before passing away in 2018, many of Cindy’s talented friends offered to help finish the project.
I think you should get a copy of this book for the little animal lover in your life this Christmas.
Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit Apollo Li Harris and Orion Li Harris, two out-of-this-world kids who had an amazing mom.
As well as graciously hosting Indie Web Camp Berlin on the weekend at Mozilla’s offices, Yulia has also drawn this super-cute comic.
Nice! It sounds like Lucy and Andy went above and beyond the call of duty when it came to the alt text for 100 Demon Dialogues.
Typography meets astronomy in 16th century books like the Astronomicum Caesareum.
It is arguably the most typographically impressive scientific manual of the sixteenth century. Owen Gingerich claimed it, “the most spectacular contribution of the book-maker’s art to sixteenth-century science.”
Liberally licensed SVG illustrations by Katerina Limpitsouni with customisable colour schemes.
Dave has redesigned his site. Now it’s extra Dave-y.
A print & web comic series about 90’s kids making life-threatening decisions over the early internet.
The first issue is online and it’s pretty great.
Well, this is simply delightful.
Jon’s been drawing a lunch note for his daughter every day since she was four years old. They are somewhat puntastic.
Improbable Botany is a brand-new science fiction anthology about alien plant conquests, fantastical ecosystems, benevolent dictatorships and techno-utopias.
This is the book plants don’t want you to read…
The illustrations look beautiful too.
This is easily the most relatable 100 Days project I’ve seen:
I began posting a daily dialogue with the little voice in my head who tells me I’m no good.
Now you can back already-funded the Kickstarter project to get the book …and a plush demon.
I love the way Guillaume Kurkdjian uses animation here to demonstrate how these gadgets from the ’90s would work.
