Illustration

After a year and a half of living in San Francisco, I recently moved back to the only place I call home—New York City. It’s been almost four months since I quit my job at Apple, and left the branding/advertising world behind. I like to romanticize my newfound self-employment as if I’m a professional basketball [...]

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Between the turn of the century and the late 1920s when the so-called "Object Poster" had reached a peak, the most effective posters were those that could be printed in both enlarged and reduced formats without sacrificing any essential visual information. Lucian Bernhard, father of the Object Poster (sachplakat) in Germany, was associated with the [...]

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An illustrated quote for today, #25. (Submit your favorite quote via Twitter or Facebook and Seymour will consider it for future Chwast Quotes!) Read more in the series from Seymour Chwast.   Resources Recommended by Imprint Available now: Print Magazine's Guest Art Director Digital Collection Pick up digital copies of your favorite Print articles with Print Singles. Get an inside look at logo design [...]

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I’ve got maps on my mind again, having recently found W.W. Jervis’s The World in Maps: A Study in Map Evolution, published by Oxford University Press in 1937. I discovered this book quite unexpectedly one recent afternoon, running errands in my Queens neighborhood. New York’s mild winter has teased out the book vendors whom usually [...]

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Sunday afternoons in New York can lead to all sorts of odd discoveries. This most recent one brought me to the Rubin Museum of Art on 17th Street and into an arts mashup the likes of which I have never seen and probably would not have believed if someone were to tell me about it. First [...]

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I picked up this book years ago because I was astounded by its naïve “design” and its raw unadulterated (hardly PC) presentation of a GI’s view of the Vietnam War.  I also haven’t seen many cartoon-books done by or about Vietnam GI’s. I wouldn’t go as far as comparing it to Bill Mauldin’s “Up Front” [...]

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An inspirational message for today, #24. (Submit your favorite quote via Twitter or Facebook and Seymour will consider it for future Chwast Quotes!) Read more inspirational messages from Seymour Chwast.   Resources Recommended by Imprint Available now: Print Magazine's Guest Art Director Digital Collection Milton Glaser and Mirko Ilic give a live DesignCast on The Design of Dissent. Register now! Get an inside look at [...]

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Chris Capuozzo's latest comic, CrazyGon 2, "contemplates materials in the world around us and gets super-psyched! Fruit stickers, scribbles, weird ads, weirder illustrations, collages, children’s art, shoe boxes, SKU labels, etc.—in 80 pages, this global inventory of art spans about 40 years and features the work of our favorite creative people, along with a selection [...]

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Thomas James began the Escape from Illustration Island Podcast series as a personal project "geared towards learning more about the illustration industry from artists, art directors, and art reps while sharing that knowledge with others," he told me. "To my surprise, it caught on quickly, becoming the top illustration-related podcast on iTunes, enjoying over 10,000 [...]

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