It's not voyeurism if you don't look inside the window, right?

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Mexican designer José Guizar, who's based in New York and spends part of his time "making super secret things at Google Creative Lab," has a sideline personal project: Capturing the essence, Adobe-Illustrator-style, of random NYC windows.

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"The Windows of New York project is a illustrated fix for an obsession that grew in me when I first moved to this city," Guizar writes.

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A product of countless steps of journey through the city streets, this is a collection of windows that somehow have caught my restless eye out from the never-ending buzz of the streets.

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This project is part an ode to architecture and part a self-challenge to never stop looking up.

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On Guizar's Windows of New York website each image is captioned with the precise location. They're oddly mesmerizing to look at, and part of the fun is seeing a familiar window and realizing it's right around the corner from you.

Via Kottke