a bit late

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.)