Category: Illustration
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Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman is an American illustrator, designer and author, well known for her New Yorker covers and children’s book illustrations. She was also a principal in the M&Co. design company, has done set design, fabric and product design, editorial illustration and a set of illustrations for a 2005 edition of the iconic guide to writing…
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Reconstructing Martha Washington
It’s President’s Day here in the U.S., and though it’s nice to contemplate the changes that will hopefully come from the presence of a new and very different president, the holiday is dedicated to past presidents, most specifically the first U.S. president, George Washington, whose birthday the holiday marks and was originally named for. Our…
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Yoshihiro Inomoto
The twelve year old kid that lives somewhere at the base of my brain, happily soaking up cool stuff like robots, spaceships and dinosaurs, has an undying fascination with cutaway images. These are the drawings and paintings that show the gleaming inner workings of something, usually a delightfully complex piece of sophisticated machinery like a…
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Tatsuyuki Tanaka
Tatsuyuki Tanaka is a Japanese animator, illustrator and comics artist who was one of the animators on the landmark anime Akira; and has done key animation, storyboarding and concept design for a number of other animated films, including directing sequences for the anthology anime Genius Party Beyond, which also includes a sequence by one of…
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Drew Struzan (update)
Drew Struzan is one of the most widely recognized and influential poster artists of modern times. In addition, he is a versatile illustrator of book and comic covers, music LP and CD covers, advertising and other product illustrations. I wrote about Struzan back in 2007. Since then his website has been redone with many additional…
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2009 Eustace Tilley Results
The results are in for The New Yorker’s 2009 Eustace Tilley Contest. See my recent post about the 2009 Eustace Tilley Contest for an explanation. You can view the 12 winners as a slide show, or as thumbnails. You can also view all 2009 entries. You can see the original Eustace from the cover of…