I just published Reason & Persuasion: Three Dialogues by Plato [amazon]
, through Pearson. I include it on this site, even though this site is for my design stuff, even its an academic textbook, because I did all the illustrations and designed the book from soup to nuts, bleed to slug. It was the biggest book design project I've taken on to date (whew!) You can read the whole book for free online here. And download it, too. (Here's the official booksite.)
In a few days - maybe a week (but I'll try to get around to it) - I'll make a Flickr set containing all the book illustrations. There are a couple hundred.
It's kinda funny. I may be the only person in the history of the world who learned to draw because of PowerPoint. That's right. I teach the large intro philosophy lecture and I had to have some color in my lecture slides. And clipart just doesn't cut it. So one thing led to another ...
John Holbo is an assistant professor of philosophy at the National University of Singapore. His academic homepage is 

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