Illustration

10 stories

The DielineBill Rebholz Brings His Distinct Illustration Style to the World of CPG Bill Rebholz isn't a packaging designer, but he's designed some pretty damn good packaging. The Wisconsin native has turned his love of old labels and signs into a distinct personal style he now…

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BooooooomIllustrator Spotlight: Yue Zhang Yue Zhang I’m an illustrator/ graphic designer currently based in Beijing. Through illustration, I make connections to everyday life, seeking out beauty in the midst of chaos.

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BehanceIllustrations for Resy

09.05

It's Nice That

It's Nice ThatJoanna Blémont didn’t get to a 2,000 frame animation without doing a few “bad drawings” first The V&A Illustration Awards-nominated illustrator Joanna Blémont understands the gentle balance between illustrating for big clients whilst simultaneously defining your own style – this is why she…

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It's Nice That“Less bank, more life”: Barkas gives Nigerian digital bank Kuda an identity with the pace of Lagos Spanning chunky geometric letterforms, a custom Naira sign and hand-drawn illustrations, the new brand moves Kuda on from its challenger days.

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Creative BoomLouise Laborie draws the lonely, cinematic and in-between parts of America The French illustrator and comic artist draws motels, highways and skate parks at dusk, in watercolour and charcoal, and fills them with teenagers who have nowhere to be.

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Creative BoomSimji Park creates soft, dreamy and tonal illustrations inspired by nature The Rotterdam-based illustrator and animator fills her pictures with willows, sleepy dogs and small sensory details from the world around her.

10.12

PRINTThe Daily Heller: Animals Are Diverse But Not All Are Created Equal World War 3 Illustrated is the foreboding title of a comic book and graphics magazine founded in 1979 by a dedicated collective of mainstream and alternative newspaper, magazine and comic book…

09.30

Graphic Design USA

Graphic Design USANew Illustrated Book From Rockport Tours ‘Paris By Design’ New York Times bestselling illustrator Aurélia Durand takes readers on a visual tour of Paris to discover how design shapes the city’s visual identity and visual culture.

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BehanceKlar Reward Agency brand illustrations

09.03

発見, hakken: a finding. This is a record of what one designer notices in a week.

I grew up beside the Arakawa, in Adachi, and spent five years in a Ginza studio drawing identities for companies you have used without once thinking about them. That work teaches you to read a city as a page. A vending machine is set type. A rice bag is a packaging problem somebody solved in the eighties and nobody has improved on since. A good deal of the best design in Japan is like that: already in the street, unsigned, waiting to be looked at properly.

So this magazine watches the street as well as the feed. Around fifty sources come in through the day, ten of them Japanese, and what the world's studios are arguing about is counted and plotted so you can watch it move. Every third day I write about one thing I actually stood in front of.

What you get for a story is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the way out to the people who reported it. Never the article itself, and never the photograph as though it were ours. A story written in Japanese stays in Japanese here, headline and excerpt both, because that is how its author set it down.

Everything is also published in Japanese at hakkenmag.com/ja/.

— Ren Arakawa, Tokyo