I haven’t posted in a while but I couldn’t miss joining the book tour for this amazing new book. Don’t let the size and and beautiful design fool you- this book is filled with techn...
Happy Love Day! I couldn’t resist posting this book today in honor of St. Valentine. This beautiful little book is a collection of Shakespeare’s Love Sonnets, wonderfully illustrated by m...
Apologies for the lag in posts. I have some time to start sharing again so here goes… I often think illustration doesn’t get the credit it deserves. People don’t appreciate it as ...
This book couldn’t be more awesome. The illustrations are fantastic, the colors are bright and then the flipping is astonishing. Each new flip is so impressive – so many scenes, so many ideas, ...
Como É Que Uma Galinha…, by Isabel Minhós Martins and Yara Kono was recently released by Portugese publisher Planeta Tangerina. The title translates to “How does a chicken…” a...
Danielle Kroll is a designer and illustrator living in Philadelphia, PA. She attended Tyler School of Art and is currently an in-house designer for Anthropologie. Danielle’s design and typograp...
We were excited back in May to share a peek into Mattias Adolfsson’s fantastically imaginary, obsessively detailed, sketchbooks. Now, his new book The First In Line, published by Sanatorium, co...
For Editions Thierry Magnier’s latest book, they asked 16 illustrators to each create an shop for an imaginary street. Rue de L’Articho then came to life, packed with a flower shop, joke ...
Pretty patterns and flowers are some of my favorite things in the world, and Ana Montiel paints some of the prettiest I’ve ever seen, in dreamy watercolor and beautiful color harmonies. I’...
These two very beautiful comics/zines are by artist Brendan Monroe. So much of his work deals with science themes whether he is painting cells or collaborating with Evah Fan on a piece about soil lay...
You may have heard through the grapevine (or from an artists site) that my ALSO partners and I are working on a new book that combines science and art. We are super excited about it and I’ll be...
Book artist and printmaker Yuka Petz created this fun book of mix and match words. By flipping the each side of the book, you can create a new nouns with crazy new meanings. Yuka started with 27 real...
I think this art compilation may have been the first Kickstarter project I funded. It’s a handmade mixed-media book called Prism Index and this is the second issue. There are only 500 hand numb...
Melissa Castrillon is an illustrator living in Cambridge, UK where she is working on an MA in children’s book illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. I first discovered her work in a featu...
Adrain Norvid call his new book Nogoodniks “a collection of dumb, slightly caustic, maybe barely even funny things” (from this article). It’s full of drawings and collages reminisce...
People is the most recent book from Blexbolex, a French illustrator now working in Berlin. Blexbolex’s style references printmaking techniques, and is built from layering graphic shapes. Everyt...
It’s always fun to share the process behind my work. I shared the process of making the interior painted pages on Design Sponge. You can check out that post right here. Today I want to share th...
In this very lovely silkscreened zine Edie Fake illustrated a poem by Wallace Stevens called Floral Decorations for Bananas. Each page has a line from the poem with a different floral centerpiece ima...
I’m not sure what this Portugese picture book is about but the illustrations are totally awesome. They mix collage and drawing and texture in a way I haven’t seen before. The style is nos...
Print & Pattern 2 is the second book from the Print & Pattern blog celebrating the work of 100 different designers and illustrators. Many of the patterns are cute and quirky, others have a ...
When you try to think of design celebrities (currently living), there aren’t too many to name. I think of “design celebrity” as someone who is acclaimed in the design world, who mig...
Typography Sketchbooks, by Steven Heller and Lita Talarico, compiles the typography work and process of different designers, illustrators, and letterers. Over 100 artists contributed their sketchbook...
Jellona Suuri is a new Finnish children’s book by illustrator Anne Vasko. Jellona Suuri translates to Lion the Great, and follows a cute red cat through pages of adventures. The illustrations a...
This week, Lauren Tamaki, an illustrator from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, shared her sketchbook. Lauren’s clients include Murale, Good Magazine, Swerve Magazine, Theatre Junction GRAND, and le PE...
I just want to mention that my new book Farm Anatomy will be going on a tour around blogland for the next couple of weeks. Each blog will post something new about the book and there will be lots of g...
Recently I took a visit over to the Pencil Factory in Greenpoint, Brooklyn to do a little studio visit with some of my favorite illustrators. Ted Mc Grath often creates zines and was kind enough to g...
I was thrilled today when this colorful book illustrated by André da Loba arrived! André da Loba is a maker of images, toys, animations, and is an amazing storyteller. He was one of the first, and al...
This past weekend was the annual NY Art Book Fair at PS1. The place was more crowded than ever. Half of me was annoyed that I often had to look over shoulders to get a glimpse of a book, and part of ...
John Garcia is a artist and illustrator, born in Los Angeles and currently living in New York City. John’s work is greatly influenced by his roots in Southern California, something we’ve ...
If you haven’t checked it out already, go see the NY Art Book Fair this weekend. It’s the most art books your brain can handle. See past years here and here. I’ll take some pictures...
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