Illustrator

Theodor Kittelsen (1857 – 1914) Norwegian Ceramicist and Book Illustrator

On: March 27, 2023

Tagged: book illustrator, Ceramic Design, norway, norwegian design, norwegian designer

In the early 1900s, he was a designer for Porsgrunds Porselaensfabrik, Porsgrunn. In 1882 Kittelsen was granted a state scholarship to study in Paris. In 1887 he returned to Norway for good. When back in Norway, he found nature to be a great inspiration. He spent the next two years in Lofoten, where he lived with his sister and brother-in-law at Skomvær Lighthouse. Kittelsen also started to write texts to his drawings there. Read More →

Keith Haring (1958 – 1990) – art that danced

On: March 7, 2023

Tagged: American designers 🇺🇸, American 🇺🇸, Art, graffiti, illustrations, illustrator, keith haring, new york, painter, painting, Street art, street artist

Keith Haring was best known for his graffiti-like painting, initially on the black paper used to cover discontinued billboard advertisements in the New York subway. After after a feverish 1980’s style career of surging popular success and grudging critical attention, Haring died of AIDS in 1991 at the age of 31.Read More →

The Supercharged Art Of Walter Molino

On: January 3, 2023

Tagged: Italian 🇮🇹, italy

Walter Molino was born in 1915 and died in 1997 at age 82. He began working professionally as an illustrator and caricaturist in 1935 for a newspaper and two children’s magazines, followed by a satirical magazine and several comic strip series.Read More →

Yoshitomo Nara (b.1959) Japanese Artist and Designer

On: January 3, 2023

Tagged: artist, Japanese, japanese artist, japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵

Nara grew up in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, about 300 miles north of the Tochigi Prefecture. His exposure to Western music on the American military radio station Far East Network in Honshu influenced his artistic imagination early. Later, he would provide cover art for bands including Shonen Knife, R.E.M., and Bloodthirsty Butchers.Read More →

Tom Ngo’s Architectural Absurdity

On: June 22, 2022

Tagged: Architect, canadian design, Hong Kong, hong kong design

“Common sense and conventional practice prohibit the evolution of architecture.” This is the first quote you find reading Tom Ngo’s Master’s thesis: The Dinner Address, A Venture into Architectural Absurdity. Read More →

George Barbier one of the Great French Illustrators

On: February 13, 2022

Tagged: French, french decor, French Design, French Designer 🇫🇷

George Barbier was one of the Great French Illustrators of the early 20th centuryRead More →

Jessie Marion King (1875 – 1949) Scottish illustrator of children’s books

On: January 11, 2022

Tagged: Architect, Art, British, British Designers 🇬🇧, female designer, female illustrator, illustrator, Paris, scottish designer

Jessie Marion King (1875 – 1949) was a well-known Scottish illustrator who specialised in children’s books. She also painted pottery and crafted bookplates, jewellery, and fabric. King was a member of the Glasgow Girls, a collective of female artists.Read More →

Mr.Otter’s Practice Travels: Illustrations by Simon Lee

On: January 1, 2022

Tagged: travel

Cute illustrations of a traveling otter and his many adventures by Beijing-based artist Simon Lee . The style of the illustrations remind me of the woodblock prints (Ukiyo-e) of Ando Hiroshige (1797–1858). Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries.Read More →

André Lhote (1885 – 1962) French Artist and Illustrator

On: December 31, 2021

Tagged: French, French Artist, French Design

Lhote was born 5 July 1885 in Bordeaux, France, and learned wood carving and sculpture from the age of 12, when his father apprenticed him to a local furniture maker to be trained as a sculptor in wood. He enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux in 1898 and studied decorative sculpture until 1904.Read More →

Beautiful Butterfly & Moth Illustrations from Dru Drury 1837

On: November 28, 2021

Tagged: British, British Design, British Designers 🇬🇧, illustrator

Dru Drury (4 February 1724 – 15 December 1803) was a British collector of natural history specimens and an entomologist. He had samples collected from across the world through a network of ship’s officers and collectors, including Henry Smeathman. Read More →

Illustrator reimagines Disney princesses as modern career women

On: November 19, 2021

Tagged: career women, illustrations, illustrator

Matt Burt – a North Carolina-based graphic designer decided to do a new take on the classic Disney princesses by redrawing them as hard-working modern career women.Read More →

Alma Haser – Within 15 Minutes

On: November 13, 2021

Tagged: photographer, Photography, twins

Within 15 Minutes – The average time between twins when they are born Alma Haser has always found identical twins fascinating, as do most people. It is the incredible realisation that there are two versions of the exact same person, hard to tell apart, unless they wear different clothes or hairstyles…Read More →

A pair of chairs designed by Louis Sparre

Louis Sparre (1866 – 1964) Swedish furniture designer

On: November 10, 2021

Tagged: Furniture, Furniture Design, Furniture designer, Scandi Design, scandinavia, scandinavian, scandinavian design, swedish, swedish design 🇸🇪, swedish designer 🇸🇪

He was born in Gravellona Lomellina, Italy. He was the son of Pehr Ambjörn Sparre af Söfdeborg (1828–1921) and Teresita Adèle Josefa Gaetana Barbavara (1844–1867). His father had served as head of the banknote printing company for the Sveriges Riksbank. He spent his early childhood with his mother at Villa Teresita in Gravellona while his father was often on business trips.Read More →

Mortality and Sacred Snakes in the Tattoo Art of Joao Bosco

On: November 3, 2021

Tagged: illustrator, tattoo, tattoos

Joao’s art is a contemplative technique that acknowledges and tackles the inevitability of death by inscribing images of mortality onto skin. Keep an eye on his own Instagram account, as well as Tiger Sword’s, where he shares his growing range of activities in publishing, music production, and other areas.Read More →

Jean Paul Langlois pop and pulp culture

On: November 1, 2021

Tagged: canada, canadian design, native american, pop art

A selection of work by Métis artist Jean Paul Langlois from Vancouver Island, currently based in East Vancouver. Informed by pop and pulp culture, particularly Westerns, 70s sci-fi and Saturday morning cartoons, Langlois plays with ultra-saturated colours and motifs as a way of grappling with a sense of alienation from his own cultural backgrounds — both indigenous and settler.Read More →

Flavours of the World: Digital Art by Omar Aqil & Povilas Daknys

On: October 25, 2021

Tagged: Digital Artist, food, fun

Pakistani CGI artist Omar Aqil and Lithuanian art director Povilas Daknys worked in collaboration to create this impressive series of artworks for Expedia, featuring the unique cuisines of 7 different countries.Read More →

Scottish Artist Margaret C. Cook’s -Illustrations for Whitman

On: October 4, 2021

Tagged: illustration, love, Poet, space, time

“Thoughts, silent thoughts, of Time and Space and Death…” When thirty-six-year-old Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in the summer of 1855, having poured the whole of his being into this unusual and daring labor of love, it fell upon unreceptive and downright hostile ears — a rejection that devastated the young poet.Read More →

Harue Koga delightful illustrations and paintings ♥︎

On: October 2, 2021

Tagged: Design, illustrations, Japan, Japanese, japanese artist, japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵

. He dropped out of junior high school to pursue a career as a painter, and in 1912, he relocated to Tokyo. He studied at the Taiheiyoga-institute kai’s and then the Japan Watercolor Painting Society’s institute. Koga became a priest in 1915 and studied Buddhism at Taisho University. Read More →

Lively and Imaginary Worlds in Illustration

On: September 26, 2021

Tagged: canada, canadian design

Jeannie Phan, a Toronto-based illustrator, is inspired by varied landscapes, plant life, and daily activities. After that, she applies a fantasy, delicate surrealism filter to her drawings, combining identifiable subjects and abstract perspectives for a skewed yet lively finish.Read More →

Gertrude Hermes (1902 – 1983) British Illustrator, Sculptor & Designer

On: September 23, 2021

Tagged: British Design, British Designers 🇬🇧, engraver, engraving

Gertrude Anna Bertha Hermes was born in Bickley, Kent, on August 18, 1901. Louis August Hermes and Helene, née Gerdes, were from Altena, Germany, near Dortmund. She attended the Beckenham School of Art in around 1921. She then enrolled in Leon Underwood’s Brook Green School of Painting and Sculpture in 1922, where she met Eileen Agar, Raymond Coxon, Henry Moore, and Blair Hughes-Stanton, whom she later married in 1926. They divorced in 1933 after separating in 1931.Read More →

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