Illustration

Bolinas, California — A  haven for a spirited community of surfers, artists, and musicians located 30 miles north of San Francisco. A concrete ramp with graffiti-covered sides leads you down to the beach, and those in the know will recognize the art of Mike Shine on these walls. Bolinas is the home of Shine’s infamous [...]

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Debbie Millman’s latest book Look Both Ways, is now available at My Design Shop. Look Both Ways is a collection of fully illustrated essays on the intersection of graphic design, love, life, behavior, rituals, brands, perceptions, music, art, even physics. Also available: Debbie Millman’s DesignCast on branding secrets, entitled Why We Buy, Why We Brand

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In 1906, suspected terrorist, anarchist, and literary instigator Félix Fénéon wrote more than a thousand small bits for the Paris newspaper Le Matin. Each was a bizarre yet enigmatic, fragmentary, often scandalous, report. Illustrator Joanna Neborsky was inspired to visually translate twenty-eight of them using a melange of collage and drawing, comprising her book Illustrated [...]

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In the August “Rants + Raves” issue of Print (on sale now!), 11 designers dish on the things they love about the current state of design, and, juiciest of all, the things they hate. To follow up on this conversation, we thought it would be fun to set up a new forum where the design [...]

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“Mike, here’s where we are in the scheme of things.” This scrawled message, found in From Here to There, accompanies a hand-drawn map that pinpoints Mike’s final destination of 20 Princess Street. What this map also tells us is that we are in Australia, south Australia, Adelaide to be precise. From a sketch of the [...]

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420 Characters is a online book of stories (limited to 420 characters each, including spaces and punctuation) by illustrator Lou Beach. “I started out filling in the ‘status update’ box on Facebook with short fiction musings rather than the usual b.s. last year,” Beach told me. “Turned out people liked them and I liked the [...]

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I just finished reading Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and The Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson. It is not a design book per se, but it is about the “design” of an emblematic, classic film adapted from Truman Capote’s bestselling novel about a free-spirited Texas transplant turned call [...]

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Tomi Ungerer, one of the most important illustrators of our time, has produced more than 40,000 drawings, poster drafts, collages, lithographs, woodcuts, and objects over his lifetime. He has also illustrated 140 books for children and adults, ranging from fairy tales to social satires and dealing with diverse topics such as childhood memories, eroticism, and [...]

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I just received a copy of The Two Sisters Cafe by Elena Yates Eulo and Samantha Harper Macy, illustrated by Pablo Ferro, better known for his striking movie title sequences than as a book illustrator. “In this unforgettable tale of a fifties café in northern Kentucky, the sleepy little town of Willow Creek is steeped [...]

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It is hard to avoid the Steinbergian influence in veteran John Rombola’s work. It pervades the Chronicle book John Rombola: Eclectic Eccentric (with an elegant essay by Véronique Vienne)—and begs the question, how much is too much influence? Nonetheless, aspects of his work transcend the similarities. For all of August 2010, Rombola’s surreal displays are [...]

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