Working in editorial illustration as she does, Sophie Blackhall-Cain spends a lot of time racking her brain around how best to grow intangible concepts into recognisable images—with the answers often appearing at the most inconvenient times! Just as she has learnt that the best way to manage her thought process is to simply keep a […]
Jackie Ferrentino’s Confident Charater-led Editorial Illustrations
Brooklyn-based, Jackie Ferrentino tells stories using a cast of confident, energetic characters. Their solid frames take bounding strides across the page and fill it with thick, weighty lines and swathes of large shapes. As Jackie talks about below, drawing is at the core of every image that she makes. While she also mixes in a […]
Love and Memory in Åsa Lucander’s Emotional ‘Lost Property’
Åsa Lucander’s short animated film, ‘Lost Property’, slowly reveals itself to be about much more than its titular setting. It’s a heartbreaking look at love and memory, and our sentimental relationship with the artifacts from our lives. Now a director at Aardman having already had 10 years working in the industry, Åsa talks to us […]
Wijtze Valkema Puzzling Pieces Together with a Focus on Design
Wijtze Valkema’s gives us a virtual tour of his stylish studio in the Netherlands as well as talking about his background in graphic design, his subsequent move to exclusively working with illustration, and how that informs his work today. It’s nice that Wijtze’s illustration style seems to have been something that evolved naturally through the way […]
Eliot Wyatt with Confident Colours and Trippy Characters
Bristol, UK-based Eliot Wyatt confidently uses intense colours in his strong, character-filled illustrations. He has a knack for striking the right balance between blindingly bright hues and their more muted counterpoints, creating work with a touch of the trippy without crossing over into the overwhelming. © Eliot Wyatt, 2016
Sam Werczler’s Rio 2016 Olympics-inspired Series Studying the Figure in Motion
With the Rio 2016 Olympics fast approaching, Brazilian illustrator and designer, Sam Werczler was inspired to created a series of images that pay homage to the physical feats of the athletes that take part. In abstracted, swirling forms, they are an interesting study in movement and the figure. We like that with the same technique […]
Moonlight and Silent Scenes in New Book by Claire Scully
In her book, ‘Internal Wilderness’, Claire Scully takes a look at ‘landscape and memory’. Over 32 pages, the haunting, twilight scenes of shadowed branches and gentle brooks take us on a journey, silently guiding us through the moonlit landscape. © Claire Scully, 2016
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