Friday, October 22, 2010

Simplify Life!


I wish life was less complicated...

Leonardo da Vinci Notebook in the V&A Museum in London

 Leonardo DaVinci’s Notebook!  Cool....


My Notebook!   Complicated.....

I like Leo's much better!!

Used between 1490 and 1493, Leonardo DaVinci's small notebook, is the kind of size you could easily keep in a coat pocket. It's filled with all sorts of ideas, notes, and sketches, including "sketches of a horse’s legs... drawings of hats and cloths that may have been ideas for costumes at balls, and an account of the anatomy of the human head."1

Reading his handwriting is not easy, between the calligraphic style and his use of mirror-writing (backwards, from right to left) but I find it fascinating to see how he puts all sorts into one notebook. It's a working notebook, not a showpiece. If

Look through LDV's notebook online
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