Friday, December 21, 2012

The Notebook: Inside the Mind of the Creative Genius

The Atlantic posted this article last week and I'd thought I'd share, because it's awesome. The notebooks of contemporary creative geniuses: 

Paula Scher, American graphic designer


Dave Eggers, American writer


Christian Lacroix, French fashion designer 


Sigur Ros


Spike Jonze, American film director


Karim Rashid, Egyptian designer


Mary Ellen Mark, American photographer

Toyo Ito, Japanese architect

And some of my own additions:


Ken Cave, 1984


Keith Haring, 1974


Mark Twain, 1884


Marilyn Monroe

Kurt Cobain


Herman Melville


Leonardo da Vinci


Milton Glaser


Frida Kahlo


Charlotte Bronte, 1836


Albert Einstein's "Travel Diary to the USA"


Jack Kerouac, 1953


Thomas Edison's To-Do List 1888


David Foster Wallace's draft of The Pale King


Charles Darwin's first evolutionary tree


Ernest Hemingway, 1908: "I intend to travel and write."


Isaac Newton's notes on alchemy


Pablo Picasso


Sylvia Plath, 1945


Jorge Luis Borges

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