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CITY LAYOUTS BY LUIS DILGER Graphic Designer Luis Dilger - “Topography, architecture and traffic routes give every city a unique structure. These conditions create the typical and individual inner structure of a city. I didn’t only want to show these structures in the conventional way from above, but also including the exact three-dimensionality of topography and buildings - a real world visualisation.”

Cross-section of the Palais des Arts Libéraux at the 1855 Exposition, Paris 

Isaac Levitan - Moon night. Big road, 1898.

The incredible brushwork of Sir Anthony van Dyck.

"瓦斯袋 長サ八間 横六間　籠大ナルコト三尺ニ四尺　目方 三十貫目　袋ハホウシヤウ紬 百四十反以ゴム引製"

Somewhere on the Eastern Front, circa 1915, by an unknown photographer

Ship of Fools

This page on view at the Getty July 8–September 21, 2014.

Next chance to add your illumination to The Chivalry Project? Tomorrow, drop in between 11am and 3pm. 

At Obsolete.

New York Public Library cross section. Scientific American. 1911.

Recent storm surges have exposed the wreckage of a German First World War U-boat which has been marooned on mudflats off the Kent coast for nearly a century. Picture: INVICTA KENT MEDIA (via Pictures of the day: 20 December 2013 - Telegraph)

A British Battleship

Unfinished Lands including Southern Shore of Volca and Land Forming from William Robert Broughton’s A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, 1795-1798

Hiroshige (1797-1858), Owl on a Maple Branch in the Full Moon, 1832.