From Publishers Weekly
Disturbing closeups of lipsticks; a collection of heartbreakingly earnest lost-pet fliers; painstakingly documented differences in the scribbles produced by Eraser Mate or Dynagrip pens all help make up Speck: A Curious Collection of Uncommon Things. Peter Buchanan-Smith, art director of the New York Times Op-Ed page, presents various odd obsessions of 25 artists in various media, and the result is this set of 200 color and 50 b&w illustrations of "projects" that come dangerously close to drawing charges of haphazard artmaking and are all the more engaging for it.
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Book Description
Peter Buchanan-Smith, art director of the New York Times op-ed page, asks artists, designers, lawyers, writers and collectors to explore our obsessions with small objects that loom large in everyday life.
About the Author
Peter Buchanan-Smith is Art Director of the New York Times Op-Ed page.
