Adam’s Sketchbook grew out of an assignment to my graphic design class at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1990. I gave them a print of Dürer’s Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and asked them to use the inherent symbolism but bring it up to date by altering the image or context. Their solutions were inspiring and started me on a nine year writing and design odyssey. I was fascinated by the amount of information compressed into the first three chapters of Genesis. I decided to decompress it using Adam as a device to express my ideas about art, politics, science and nature. The challenge was to keep it all to 80 pages and two colors, which the budget called for.