Luggnagg

Description: Evil thoughts are hatching in the devil's mind.

Description: Evil thoughts are hatching in the devil's mind.

Description: Based on a woodcut of a so called printers mark from 1543. Shows how rock heated by fire cracks when showered with water and hammered. Symbolizes how new revolutionary knowledge breaks up old ideas and ignorance. This particular printer published several historically important science books.

Description: Arthur Schopenhauer, the depressed German philosopher, cheers himself up with a lovely pink doughnut. As we all know, a doughnut can cure even severe cases of Weltschmerz - best to have some on hand.

Description: Scientific illustration from “The natural history of British fishes” by Donovan, E (1768-1837), publication date 1802-1808.

Description: Pink sprinkle donut getting boosted with magnetic resonance cascades, so as to power a man's hunger for unlimited energy.

Description: All the hamburgers you need for a big craving, and fries to go with them. Admit the picture makes you hungry :) Photos courtesy Evan-Amos.

Description: Still the best building, creating toy out there. You got to love Lego.

Description: Big eyed fish with funny and grumpy expression.

Description: A sleepwalker that walks in an infinite loop.

Description: Certified pill.

Description: Coat of arms of Sweden from tomb of King Gustav Vasa, located in Uppsala cathedral in Sweden.

Description: Coat of arms of Sweden from the tomb of King Gustav Vasa in Uppsala cathedral in Sweden.

Description: Coat of arms of Sweden from the tomb of King Gustav Vasa, located in Uppsala cathedral in Sweden. The word "Sweden" added for effect.

Description: Swedish flag with Swedish coat of arms in foreground.

Description: A bunch of bullshit, plainly speaking, but rather funny. If you try to understand it, perhaps you will get wiser.... Text courtesy of JA.

Description: A winning smile makes the day.

Description: A beautiful woodpecker! Image based on a scientific illustration by Eliza Turck, from about 1883. The original chromolithograph is somewhat digitally adapted.

Description: Cool birds, based on a scientific illustration.

Description: This image was originally a black and white linocut. Here it is digitally colorized to be more interesting.

Description: Nothing much to add here about the image. We all know he is waiting for us...

Description: This is the first letter in a paragraph of an old prayer book, a so called illuminated initial. The book was created about 1490 in Flanders, Europe. Courtesy of The Walters Art Museum.

Description: This eye makes me think dystopian thoughts...

Description: A beautiful insect image, here brought back to new life from the since long forgotten book "An epitome of the natural history of the insects of India..." published in 1800 by E. Donovan. Donovan has the insect name as Mantis viridis, but the accepted name has changed.

Description: Image from "Emblematum ethico-politicorum centuria" by Julius Wilhelm Zincgref, published 1624. Original black and white copper engraving by Matthaeus Merian, color added digitally by Luggnagg.

Description: Engraving by Dutch artist Cornelis Bloemaert (made ca 1625). The original is black and white, here it is digitally colorized.

Description: Color plate from "Fabre's book of insects" (some errors in the image corrected).

Description: Watercolor by M. de Gijselaar, dated 1831. Here the dull grey background of the original has been removed digitally, and replaced with a deep sky blue in all product adaptations except t-shirts.

Description: Medieval painting of woman making a self portrait, so selfie obsession is nothing new.

Description: Patriotic Donut Day on the moon.

Description: Illustration by Bruno Paul. A beautiful scene of two longhaired mermaids playing - masterfully drawn, elegantly and simply.

Description: This image was originally a black and white linocut. Here it is digitally colorized to be more interesting.

Description: Image based on a hand colored engraving from "Natürliche Abbildungen der merkwürdigsten Amphÿbien nach ihren Geschlechtern", by G.A.Lange, Berlin 1783.

Description: Scientific illustration from “The natural history of British fishes” by Donovan, E (1768-1837), publication date 1802-1808.

Description: “The Bathing Pool”, oil painting from around 1777 by Hubert Robert. Here the idyll is broken by an approaching excavator.