Tunnel books or peep shows are a series of cut-paper panels placed one behind the other, creating the illusion of depth and perspective. Often, these are engineered like an accordion, more »
Category: Exhibitions
"N is for Noodles," and is also a very fun illustration from David Pelletier's The Graphic Alphabet. This image is part of Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration, which is more »
A Repository for Bottled Monsters, a blog that features all things from the National Museum of Health and Medicine, recently featured the Libraries' exhibition, Picturing Words: the Power of Book more »
Sears Christmas Book, Sears, Roebuck & Company, Chicago: 1956, Cover From the Libraries exhibtion, Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration, which is currently on view in the National Museum more »
From Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn… Shakespeare's Globe: an interactive pop-up theatre / Toby Forward; Juan Wijngaard. Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, c2005. King Lear, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Hamlet, more »
The Libraries exhibition, Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration is still on exhibit at the National Museum of American History, through the end of the National Cherry Blossom Festival. more »
“The most important single book in science”—Bern Dibner, Heralds of Science One hundred fifty years ago, in November 1859, Charles Darwin’s On the origin of species was published. The 1,250 more »