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The Last Book & The Black Book
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What we leave behind, and the paths we never took.
The Last Book is a hymn to what we were where every page is hand-illustrated. A visual and philosophical masterpiece that asks one haunting question: What will remain when we’re gone?
The Black Book is a hand-illustrated exploration of forgotten inventions, abandoned technologies, and alternative paths of human progress. Co-created with Noah Charney, it brings real but overlooked ideas back to life through original artwork, historical research, and stories of human ingenuity that never became part of everyday history.
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Fact-checked by engineers
Hand-drawn illustrations
Co-authored with Pulitzer-nominated author
Black Legacy Set
The story begins from explosion
It is not just a story about the end, it’s a love letter to everything that ever made us human.
The Last Book
The Diary of The Last Earthling
After witnessing the destruction of Earth from a deserted spacecraft he has no memory of boarding, Noah Kaplan wanders its silent corridors in search of answers, and the unseen presence he feels watching him. As he traverses the vessel, Noah fills his only possession, a journal, with sketches and memories of humanity, turning his days as the sole surviving Earthling into The Last Book, an improvised graphic novel shaped by the drawings and reflections of an artist struggling to hold on to what it means to be human, and to preserve the fragile essence of an entire civilization.
REIMAGINE THE FUTURE THROUGH 180 LOST, REAL INVENTIONS
Every invention you use today beat a hundred others to get there. The atmospheric train lost to the steam engine or self-pouring teapot lost to the ordinary kettle. We went looking for the ones that didn't make it, drew them out and gathered them into one beautiful book you can actually hold.
The Black Book
The Ultimate Guide to Alternative Inventions
A hand-illustrated book, co-created with Noah Charney, dedicated to inventions that never became part of everyday life. Some arrived before the world was ready for them, and others simply lacked the context, support, or funding needed to succeed. Rather than viewing these ideas as failures, the book reconsiders them as fully realized alternative paths of human ingenuity. Through original illustrations and carefully researched stories, it brings forgotten concepts back into focus, showing the creativity, ambition, and vision behind each one.
