Illustration of how a smart phone works from "The Way Things Work Now" by David Macaulay. (courtesy Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Everyday we use hundreds of simple and complicated machines in our ...

“I grew up when you could stand in an elevator and sort of watch how parts of it worked,” the author and illustrator David Macaulay told ... in books like The Way Things Work.

It’s been nearly 30 years since Caldecott Medalist David Macaulay was first asked ... He spoke with PW about The Way Things Work Now, a new edition of his now-classic work.

Illustrator David Macaulay has been explaining science in pictures for decades now, starting in 1988 with the beloved The Way Things Work. The book brought to life hundreds of machines, beginning with ...

David Macaulay says it was too diagrammatically difficult to chart the link between the respiratory system and the circulatory system. "I finally just got frustrated and thought, 'Let's just do ...

His new book is The Way We Work, which as the title implies ... A: I'm intrigued by things I feel ignorant about. For 35 years I've been telling people to keep their eyes open.

If you like David Macaulay’s books, either his intricate architectural expositions such as “Cathedral” or “Pyramid,” or his whimsical how-and-why stories like “The Way Things Work ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Gone now is a mural designed by award-winning author and illustrator David ... Macaulay is perhaps best known for his international bestseller, "The Way Things Work," which ...