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RIP Charles Harper.

If you didn't grow up with a Giant Golden Book of Biology or come across his park posters later in life, consider yourself unlucky. Harper's stylishly geometric and stunningly simple aesthetic remains a design force with which to be reckoned.
Thanks to Todd Oldham, his illustrations are newly documented in Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life. (The monograph comes with a hefty price tag, which is unfortunate because I want to give it to everyone I know.)

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Remember the food sculptures from the Play With Your Food book? This is an accidental version that nearly got swept down the disposal before it's small screen debut. Then he got it good.