Illustration
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Creative Boom'It simply fills my life and saves me': Inside Varya Yakovleva’s sketchbooks From a chance ink sketch to a full series of paintings and wooden sculptures, the illustrator and animator explains how Les Femmes sauvages came together. "I was playing with ink, and I linked a...
DezeenImagina Abstract tiles by Casalgrande Padana Dezeen Showroom: designers can create mural-like feature walls and wallpaper-esque finishes using the artistic Imagina Abstract tile range by Casalgrande Padana. The Italian company's Imagina Abstract tile collection fea
The DielineJamie Stark Reimagines Vintage Produce Labels and Cans as Murals for Pacific Coast Produce Designer Jamie Stark and painter Jeremy Stanger have teamed up to bring the styles of vintage produce packaging to the exterior walls of Pacific Coast Produce's facilities. The post Jamie Stark Reimagines Vintage Produce
The DielineCrystal Vision Takes Non-Alcoholic Drinks On a Scenic Detour CRYSTAL VISION by Young Jerks brings a fresh outdoor spirit to non alcoholic drinks with vintage inspired typography, illustrated wilderness details, and a fiery red palette. The nostalgic label design gives the modern s
Creative BoomHow Lorena Spurio lets her drawings tell her what she loves The Turin-based artist fell in love with illustration one afternoon, thanks to an Andy Warhol ink drawing. Now she works for The New York Times and the Financial Times, inspired by "ordinary"...
The DielineBRU Dresses Up for Dinner In Refresh From WeWantMore WeWantMore refreshes BRU with a table ready identity that pairs deep blue, warm gold and pearl inspired details with a newly illustrated stag, turning Belgium’s sparkling water staple into a polished part of the dining r
PRINTThe Daily Heller: Paolo Garretto Was My Pen Pal, Reprised Revisiting one of Steven Heller's favorite stories about a legend of Italian design … The post The Daily Heller: Paolo Garretto Was My Pen Pal, Reprised appeared first on PRINT Magazine .
Fast Company DesignAI ruined posters. This human designer is fixing them Bad AI -designed posters have become so prolific that actual, human graphic designers are redesigning them on their own just to show the value of a living, breathing designer’s touch. AI-designed posters have a particula
Creative BoomI questioned TWA's use of AI illustration in a branding project: here's their fascinating response The Working Assembly used AI in its branding for Untold, but not in the way you might think. Last week, I wrote a critique of The Working Assembly's new identity for voice-journalling app Untold. The...
The DielineMcDonald’s Adds Some Central Valley Flavor With Cecelia Perez-Designed ‘McMamalona’ Cups A McDonald’s campaign in California’s Central Valley taps into the Golden State's love for the lowrider scene. Working with designer Cecelia Perez and muralist Carlos Lopez, the brand added some of that local culture to
BP&OThonik’s identity for Orkest Phion gives the symphony orchestra a brand that’s as ever-changing and itinerant as its programme Orkest Phion – or Phion Symphony Orchestra in English – is a Dutch travelling symphony orchestra that was formed in 2019 through the merger of the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and Het Gelders Orkest. Based in the easte
Creative BoomHow illustrator Azra Hirji turns the family table into an archive of food, migration and memory The artist behind the Substack In The Filing Cabinet is on a mission to preserve her family's table. From her mother's homemade chutney to her late father's lentil daar – one appetising artwork at a t...
Creative BoomWhy Ayong Son left agency life in Seoul to draw five things a day The artist on quitting the client-pleasing grind, sticking to a regular drawing habit, finding vitality in art-making, and building enormous, hand-cut paper flowers on the floor. "In an age when...
PRINTThe Daily Heller: Five Decades of George Hardie’s Design in London A retrospective of iconic work by the English illustrator/designer will be mounted during the London Design Festival. The post The Daily Heller: Five Decades of George Hardie’s Design in London appeared first on PRINT Ma
Spoon & TamagoJapanMinecraft Characters Emerge in the Fields for Gaming-Inspired Gyoda Rice Paddy Art Every summer, the city of Gyoda in Saitama Prefecture turns rice paddies into giant canvases, planting colorful rice varieties to form massive works of art. Known as tanbo art, these living murals stretch across nearly t
Creative BoomGabriel Diogo on football, memory, and the warm colours of Brazil's backyards From terrace flags to the humble bar glass, the São Paulo illustrator draws the everyday life of Brazil he grew up in – and now Nike has come calling. Gabriel Diogo was born and raised on São Paulo's...
PRINTThe Daily Heller: The Legacy of Brad Holland, American Illustrator Honoring one of the most copied and heralded editorial illustrators. The post The Daily Heller: The Legacy of Brad Holland, American Illustrator appeared first on PRINT Magazine .
Creative BoomThis rebrand of a voice-journalling app looks lovely, but is an 'AI illustration system' the right call? The Working Assembly's new identity for Untold aims to avoid gen AI clichés, but still uses gen AI to create it. It can't have escaped your attention that AI feels like a dirty word right now. But gen...
Creative BoomFei Meng brings the spirit of classical portraiture to modern editorial and advertising illustration Her evocative work reminds me of the storybooks of my 1970s childhood—only reimagined for the digital age. Originally from China, Fei Meng lived in the UK for 15 years before relocating to New York in...
Creative BoomHow Chanida Areewatanasombat draws the feelings she can't say out loud The Bangkok-based illustrator makes what she calls "visual diaries", recording her thoughts and feelings on paper and screen to try to make sense of them. Her latest work is about letting go...
Design ObserverThe Smithsonian was ordered to flag “inaccurate information.” I designed a poster series that required complicated truths. In July, the Trump administration ordered signs to be hung outside Smithsonian museums warning visitors that exhibitions may contain “inaccurate information.” It has reignited a familiar question for me and many others:
PRINTPRINT Book Club Recap: Life, Liberty & Comics If you missed last week’s PRINT Book Club with R. Sikoryak, you can watch it here. What happens when the… The post PRINT Book Club Recap: Life, Liberty & Comics appeared first on PRINT Magazine .
Logo Design LoveYakitoriya, by Art Lebedev This illustrative logo for a chain of Japanese restaurants caught my eye. It was designed by Egor Zhgun of Art. Lebedev Studio in 2014. The studio’s case study dates back a while but you can catch that here. The triple m
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