Who knew the circulatory system could be cute?

Great illustration for children, even though it may not be anatomically correct.

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By Peter Slight - Larger version can be found here.

Seeing piece like this makes me think a wonderful art project would be to create a whole new design driven anatomy book - one that may even be as comprehensive as Gray's Anatomy (the book not the TV series).

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Yes that's a great illustration. How did you find it? I tried to do it and it's actually not as easy as it seems!!

btw, did you ever see the actually Gray's Anatomy book? I always thought it must be so old and not used anymore or something.

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