Blog: Illustration

2 February 2012

Getting away with murder

Getting away with murder

Good, bad and ugly cover ‘tributes’: a new spin on the death of music design.
The album cover may have lost its mojo as far as contemporary culture is concerned…

30 January 2012

Noted #28

Noted #28

noted

German stamps, jazz covers, the New Aesthetic, box art and #occupy
A few links to sites, images and texts that have caught our attention over the…

23 January 2012

Noted #27

Noted #27

noted

Generative type, wartime poster app, Lucid’s pink ‘paper’ and Paula’s maps
Below are some more links and ideas that caught our attention over the past few…

11 January 2012

Force of nature

Force of nature

liz farrelly

New Kapitza book replaces geometric certainty with organic structure
Following on from their 2008 book Geometric, the Kapitza sisters, Nicole and Petra, have produced…

5 January 2012

Joe rocks

Joe rocks

eric gillett

A stone’s throw from Interstate 80 – messages in the snake-infested brush
Short of car trouble or comfort breaks, there’s no real reason to stop along the…

4 January 2012

Savagery beneath the skin

Savagery beneath the skin

derek brazell

Ronald Searle, British illustrator,3 March 1920 to 30 December 2011
Everyone has a way into the work of Ronald Searle, writes Derek Brazell, whether it’s…

3 January 2012

Lines of communication

Lines of communication

eye editors

Carl DeTorres on IBM, Ogilvy and avoiding ‘over art direction’
For Eye 81, the ‘Designers and clients’ special issue, Chris Maillard spoke to several clients…

29 December 2011

Noted #24

Noted #24

noted

Social highways, a log, visualisation, book dedications & paper ephemera
More links to sites and articles that caught our attention in recent days. Information’s social…

19 December 2011

Noted #23

Noted #23

noted

Leiter’s fragments, animation, covers, ephemera and ‘comical’ wordmarks
Here are a few links to sites, articles and a video that grabbed our attention…

15 December 2011

Behind the belly band

Behind the belly band

sallyanne theodosiou

What happens when you stick a hyphen into culture?
Rian Hughes’s Cult-ure asks the question ‘What is a book?’ writes Sallyanne Theodosiou. Each spread…
 
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