Category: Illustration
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Blown Covers
Even those who are not regular readers of the magazine often find great pleasure and fascination with the New Yorker’s witty, clever, and often beautifully drawn and painted covers. New Yorker covers are such a recognizable and distinct format, and have so much history of superb work by terrific artists, that they are practically an…
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Tran Nguyen
Born in Vietnam and raised in the US, Georgia based artist Tran Nguyen studied illustration at the Savannah College of Art and Design (if I’m interpreting the info page of her website correctly, her name is pronounced “tron wen”). Nguyen’s illustrations combine elements of realism, magic realism, art nouveau and perhaps symbolism, and frequently include…
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The Public Domain Review
I’d like to talk (well OK, rant) for a minute about copyright and the principle of public domain. “Public domain” is a term referring to works that have passed out of copyright, or have been deliberately assigned to the public domain on creation (for example when created for the U.S. government), and therefore now belong…
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Produce crate labels
Before the austerity imposed by World War II, produce in the US was shipped in wooden crates with colorful, carefully designed and illustrated labels, meant to set each producer apart from the others. The relatively sudden advent of cheaper cardboard boxes left many of the crate labels unused and they have become collectors items. A…
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Kris Wiltse
Kris Wiltse is an illustrator and gallery artist based in Washington State. In her illustration work she favors the unusual medium of block printing, working in linocut, woodcut and scratchboard. Wiltse also works in watercolor for her gallery art and personal sketching, as well as for a secondary speciality in interpretive signs — informative location…
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1920’s Chicago promotional posters on Imprint
In a recent post to his always interesting column, J.J. Sedelmaier has written an article for Imprint on a fascinating promotional poster series in Chicago in the early 20th century: A True Visionary Gives Chicago A Landmark Branding Campaign Circa 1920-30. With the help of Dave at Poster Plus, Sedelmaier has accompanied the article with…