fromme-toyou:

on top of Beacon Hill

Boston, Mass

Speak Memory - cover design Michael Beirut

I have posted about these covers before. Now you can see the whole collection.

The Nabokov Collection:Design Observer

arsvitaest:

During the plague in the Middle Ages, some doctors wore a primitive form of biohazard suit called “plague suits”. The mask included red glass eyepieces, which were thought to make the wearer impervious to evil. The beak of the mask was often filled with strongly aromatic herbs and spices to overpower the miasmas or “bad air” which was also thought to carry the plague.

(via silicon, theangryprojectionist, studentloansforbeermoney, dontcookbilly, shorterexcerpts and skysignal)

crashinglybeautiful:

Franz Kafka - The Trial, Page 1

crashinglybeautiful:

Manet, Seascape by Moonlight, 1873-76

Robert Adams (via Design Observer)

berenike:avalanche:cutoffs:(via VIEVVVS)

nevver:

Blackout ‘65. Gotham.

Q and A - by tom gauld

astroinquiry:

Lucian Freud  stop to wonder

tartanspartan:

South Crillon Glacier and Canoe, Alaska — Bradford Washburn, 1934

Nathan Oliveira - Head and Shape

via americanart.si.edu