Cutaway illustrations are an art form of their own. So much so, in fact, that there's now a coffee table book of them: "Look Inside" from publisher Gestalten. The book includes a sports car ...

with a Rex Burnett cutaway illustration inside. The text accompanying the illustration described the bodies as made from two 150-gallon "aircraft surplus fuel tanks" which were cut in half and ...

Nowhere is this impulse to dissect a topic or idea quite so literal as in cutaway illustrations–arguably the earliest form of information design. As brothers Juan and Samuel Velasco detail in ...