When I was a kid, I loved cutaway drawings. There was something fascinating about being able to see the inside and outside of an object at once; peeling back the hardened exterior and peeping inside at the intimate interior details. It was a rare mix of public and private that felt almost voyeuristic. Then I grew up and, well, I still love cutaways. And it turns out so does everyone else, so much so that you might say, “When a man is tired of cutaways, he is tired of life.”
For 50 years the master of the genre was Robbert Das. The Dutch graphic artist (together with his twin Adolf) who became famous for his futuristic visions of urban
