Did you know that I’ve started another project? eyra is an online space dedicated to the show and sale of illustration. I curate exhibitions centered around a theme, with each illustrator providing variations on that theme. (Kind of like This…
Cari Vander Yacht writes, growing up in Oregon, she developed as a “loud nerd that drew dragons,” later entering the advertising field as a graphic designer. Like a super hero, Cari has a double life. She designs and art directs…
I had the pleasure of working with Yehteh (AKA Philipp Dornbierer) on the Píccolo Print Project earlier this year. I’ve admired his illustrations for a long time. He is able to translate the human form into stylized and well-designed illustrations. For a really…
Nanae Kawahara is a Japanese illustrator whose website is full of dogs. This is appropriate, as her first solo show, DOOOOOGS !! was in 2012. She depicts dogs like humans, standing on two legs, throwing a baseball, drinking from a cup. She’s very good…
I was eating brunch at my friends’ house yesterday and saw an illustrated map of Baltimore on their wall. It’s difficult to accurately represent this map in a mere 500 pixels because of its complexity, but the illustrator, Caleb Luke…
Sarah Andreacchio is an illustrator based in France. Her bright, shape-driven works appear in the children’s market, as patterns, as posters, and as editorial illustrations. Her style is one that doesn’t have to have an overly-complicated analysis of…
Thanks to Helen Dardik’s Pinterest, I discovered the illustrations of Aleksandra Niepsuj. They are generally minimal in color with use of some photographic elements in digital collage. Flat yet energetic, chaotic yet ordered, I find these illustrations nicely designed,…
I’ve been looking at my cohort, collaborator, and best pal Lisa Perrin’s work all school year, and love what she has created. We installed our MFA thesis exhibitions this week, and it was really incredible to see all of her…
Whenever I have a busy day/week(s), I think of this episode of SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki. (Read the rest. You won’t regret it.) Do you ever feel this way? Between my general school work load, THESIS exhibition installation…
My graduate program, MICA’s MFA Illustration Practice, has some super amazing illustrators visit. They critique our work, run workshops, and give lectures. The first year students have been working with Tomi Vollauschek, who is one half of FL@33, a multidisciplinary design studio…