Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

I recently got my hands on a review copy of Nigel Peake’s Into the Wilds, a book that fea­tures his sig­na­ture illus­tra­tion style applied to all sorts of rural and nat­ural imagery. I’ve always been a fan of his care­fully con­sid­ered and obses­sively detailed draw­ings (see an  older post here), so it’s great to see more of the same wrapped up in a com­pact, the­mat­i­cally con­sis­tent package.

More from pub­lisher Princeton Architectural Press:

In the Wilds is a col­lec­tion of artist Nigel Peake’s hand-drawn obser­va­tions of rural life. From the trees, fields, lakes, and rolling hills that define the coun­try land­scape, to the farm houses, trac­tors, fences, and tele­graph poles that build it, Peake’s obses­sively detailed pen­cil and ink draw­ings and beau­ti­fully muted water­col­ors cap­ture the slow mov­ing rhythm of his sur­round­ings. In a time when every­one seems to be seek­ing relief from the fast pace of every­day life, In the Wilds offers an escape to a coun­try­side as time­less as it is idyllic.