So, while touring the Massachusetts countryside earlier this week, and riding from Springfield over to Boston, I got off the beaten path and ran into some pretty amazing discoveries… What I was actually looking for was an exhibit that I’d heard about being at Hampshire College, which isn’t far from Amherst, in the middle of country pure and green… The exhibit was in the Eric Carle Museum for Picture Book Art. Well, that didn’t happen, because my source forgot to mention the museum was closed on Monday. But! what I did find—beyond the best ice cream you’d ever wish for on an almost three-digit day—was the National Yiddish Book Center.

It was amazing, a great resource for designers. The works in there are unbelievable—the posters and the stories are so relevant to contemporary design, from a million different viewpoints and ways. And to think I literally just ran into it—a happy accident. I just wish I’d had more time!

I snapped off a few point-n-shoot images to share.

Hank

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