Tag: Illustrations
When speaking out against ISIS earlier this month, President Obama attempted to rein in those who maligned the entire religion of Islam based on the actions of radical groups. “Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed […]
While many of us spend our daily subway rides in a zombie-like haze, desperately using our smart devices to zone out the annoyances of fellow commuters, NYC-based Chris Russell makes art. He’s spent the past three years filling 8 accordion-style sketchbooks with illustrations of the subway’s swarm of faces to create his series “Foolish Behavior in the House […]
Here are the Seven Deadly Sins, re-imagined as sleek illustrations by Vincent Mahé. There’s a hint of a vintage paperback feel, but mostly, there is an overpowering “elite” aesthetic. WTF is an avarice? Oh, but of course. It’s when you have a dozen dozens too many very expensive wines in your wine cellar. But, yes. And Sloth is when you […]
We’re all cyborgs. Technology has become so omnipresent in each of our lives that our brains have begun engaging in new behaviors that are molded around it, argues technologist and entrepreneur Amber Case. And to help us better understand the ways in which that’s happening, she’s created the Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology, a volume that […]
It’s hard to imagine whether Charles Bukowski — king of self-deprecation and misanthropy — would approve of some young hotshot designer’s visual renditions of his writing. If he were alive to see these surpassingly sleek but fitting cover designs for several Italian translations of his work, would the Dirty Old Man invite illustrator Emiliano Ponzi over for […]
