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Designer Illustrates, One by One, the Windows of New York

It’s not voyeurism if you don’t look inside the window, right?

Mexican designer José Guizar, who’s based in New York and spends part of his time “making super secret things at Google Creative Lab,” has a sideline personal project: Capturing the essence, Adobe-Illustrator-style, of random NYC windows.

“The Windows of New York project is a illustrated fix for an obsession that grew in me when I first moved to this city,” Guizar writes.

A product of countless steps of journey through the city streets, this is a collection of windows that somehow have caught my restless eye out from the never-ending buzz of the streets.

This project is part an ode to architecture and part a self-challenge to never stop looking up.

On Guizar’s Windows of New York website each image is captioned with the precise location. They’re oddly mesmerizing to look at, and part of the fun is seeing a familiar window and realizing it’s right around the corner from you.

Via Kottke