Capturing Imagination

Each week, John Foster shares with Design Observer readers his curated discoveries from various online resources. Foster spends hours mining digital collections at museums and hundreds of other sources for objects of interest and curiosity that present the kind of high design and graphic qualities he thinks readers will enjoy. Presented here are his top ten galleries of 2013.

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