Tom Geisler's Inventions

Guestblogger Paul Spinrad is a freelance writer/editor, and is Projects Editor for MAKE magazine. He is the author of The VJ Book and The Re/Search Guide to Bodily Fluids, and was an early contributor to bOING bOING when it was an online zine. He lives in San Francisco.

I love Tom Geisler’s art illustrations, which combine the life-improving spirit of chindogu with the obsessive precision of antique technical drawings (he’s also a technical illustrator). Tom is working on a book, “Reduce. Reuse. Reinvent: Free Patents That Will Save Our Galaxy,” and here’s some material from it, including an hilarious series of pages that illustrate the inventor’s personal history.

Reduce. Reuse. Reinvent.