Space posters from the I AM REAL DESIGNS Etsy store
Posts marked Illustration
Isabelle Delle’s fantastic vintage-inspired collages
A Map of the World: The World According to Illustrators and Storytellers is a book of creative insights about our diverse planet edited by Antonis Antoniou, R. Klanten, H. Ehmann and H. Hellige.
About the book:
A Map of the World is a compelling collection of work by a new generation of original and sought-after designers, illustrators, and mapmakers. This work showcases specific regions, characterizes local scenes, generates moods, and tells stories beyond sheer navigation. From accurate and surprisingly detailed representations to personal, naïve, and modernistic interpretations, the featured projects from around the world range from maps and atlases inspired by classic forms to cartographic experiments and editorial illustrations.
Beautiful new work by Ed Fairburn
As a promotion for a new television show, an artist was commissioned by the UK history TV channel Yesterday to create a series of portraits of important historical figures as they would appear if they lived today. Click on the images to see who’s who.
Animal prints by Michelle Doherty from her GreenGirlCanvas Etsy store.
The Connectome by Bruno Vergauwen
Illustrator Annika Bäckström’s predictions are as beautiful as they are bleak.
T-shirt weather has arrived! These tees from the Sharp Shirter can now be found in my Thinx Gifts store.
Blackboard paintings from Vernon Fisher’s series The Long Road to Nowhere
About the project:
Fisher’s preoccupation with archive, information transmission, memory, and taxonomy stems from an early interest in how people make sense of the world. His hallmark blackboard paintings recall pedagogical lessons or speculative renderings, oftentimes replacing sequential logic with “disordered notations” analogous to excerpts from an unrepressed mindscape. Often weaving literary references, pop cultural imagery, and cartography with his own symbolic lexicon, Fisher renounces the convention of a singular, autonomous narrative in favor of a seemingly endless metonymic chain.
Specimens from Japanese designer Guusan’s book of butterflies. His unique collection was derived from a variety of typographic fonts.
Flora & fauna by Lara Cobden
Biologically inspired work by Shoshanah Dubiner
Audubon Drawings by Megan Greene
In her recent series, Megan Greene subverts and recontextualizes traditional Audubon bird prints, having long incorporated naturalist studies and images of flora and fauna in her work. In these intricate hybridizations she explores shifts between the found vs. altered, drawn vs. photographic, representational vs. abstract, and the beautiful vs. the grotesque. Her transformations dissolve, evolve and re-conceive the original hijacked images to become something known yet fully new.
You Are Stardust by Elin Kelsey and illustrated by Soyeon Kim is a children’s book filled with charming dioramic art and big ideas.
About the book:
You Are Stardust begins by introducing the idea that every tiny atom in our bodies came from a star that exploded long before we were born. From its opening pages, the book suggests that we are intimately connected to the natural world; it compares the way we learn to speak to the way baby birds learn to sing, and the growth of human bodies to the growth of forests. Award-winning author Elin Kelsey — along with a number of concerned parents and educators around the world — believes children are losing touch with nature. This innovative picture book aims to reintroduce children to their innate relationship with the world around them by sharing many of the surprising ways that we are all connected to the natural world.
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