Illustrations by Graham Robinson aka Beaston
The illustrations of Graham Robinson, a.k.a Beaston, have a fanciful quality that offer a look into an ordinary life in the woods and all its hilarious quandaries. Illustrations found in magazines, journals, and other papers feature images of luxury, wealth, and people enjoying the high life. In today’s fast paced world, he chooses to take times out to focus on the unseen banalities of venturing out into the woods rather then a busy cafe’ on a crowded street in the city. The quiet moments and believability of the everyday mishaps are what makes the Canadian artist’s drawings so special. Scenes of woodsmen struggling with their worn out rust-colored canoes, or parked in front of roaring fires cooking tin cans of beans, are only some of the endearing characters in Robinson’s world. Brilliantly colored fish, wiry tackles, bicycles wrapped in fly fishing hooks, cut and float through the empty plane of the paper like birds through air. One could easily imagine these images alongside a text in a manual instructing the camper on how to be a successful woodsmen. The paintings could also tell Robinson’s personal adventure into the forest, or simply illustrate Murphy’s Law applied to camping.
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The Illustrated Works of Mark Weaver
Mark Weaver has done great work for publications such as WIRED, GOOD, the New York Times and more. He also has a few independent works of his own in poster and screen print form, which are truly original and worth owning. Hopefully we’ll get to see more of Mark’s projects soon.
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The Works of Matthew Lyons
The abstract and the vintage is evident in the illustrated works of Matthew Lyons. His angular approach to the art gives his viewers a mixture of something eerily familiar yet totally brand new. In some cases, you’ll notice the retro sci-fi inspired works as well as the James Bond-esque and Hitchcock themes. His movie title screens are also homages to the past but in a kind of new animated form. Its great to see that a 21-year old student from Britain can capture the past so well, yet put his own twist to make it totally fresh and fun to look at.
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Insect Illustrations of Cornelia Hesse-Honegger
The radiant works of Scientific Illustrator Cornelia Hesse-Honegger examine nature’s oft-neglected fragility as well as its unstoppable strength. Since the catastrophe of Chernobyl, Hesse-Honegger has collected morphologically disturbed insects, transforming their mutations into painted pieces of bold, graphic beauty. Information on her new book featuring silk designs with fabric can be found at Wissenskunst.ch.
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The Illustrations of Matthew Cook
Kingston University graduate Matthew Cook is described as one of the busiest illustrators of his generation. This is due to being commissioned early in his career to show his vision on various art projects.
His work has the simplicity of watercolor paintings but his choice of inspiration adds depth to the art, its somewhat similar in the design of the art work done for the game series Metal Gear Solid; especially his depictions of war.
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Orb Paintings by Masakatsu Sashie
Part futuristic and nostalgic, part triumphant and tragic, part pop art and architectural Masakatsu Sashie’s tremendous paintings are depictions of decaying civilizations punctuated–and possibly being observed by–giant, self-contained, floating spheres. His work, besides being visually strong, conjures up many a question: is this time after civilization, is this an entirely pessimistic view of our current state (after all, video game machines can’t be that bad), and, most of all, why is a dystopian future so hard to look away from?
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George Petty Pin-Up Girl Illustrations
It’s a little known fact that pin-up artist George Petty was an innovator during the 1930’s. His amazingly inspirational pin-up illustrations and gatefolds for Esquire popularized the use of centerfold spreads in magazines.
Petty was the artist behind the Petty Girl, an iconic full page cartoon that debuted in the 1933 Esquire innaugural issue. The Petty Girl’s image was soon found on advertisements, postcards and was the subject of Life magazine’s “Petty Girl…is feminine ideal?” later that decade.
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Architectural Illustrations by Nathan Freise
First exhibited in July 2008 at New York’s School of Visual Arts, these illustrations by Nathan Freise depict futuristic architectural scenarios with complex layers of images produced with a variety of mediums. Freise combined ink, graphite, and marker with photography and computer graphics to create utopian images which he says, “question our current conditions of suburban sprawl and urban master-planning.” The illustrations portray iconic urban infrastructure contrasted against distinctly modern architectural interventions, creating images that manage to feel both vintage and futuristic.
Freise is widely recognized for his work alongside his brother, with whom he produces short films, images, and narratives in the same vein as his illustrations. Their most known work is their short film “The Machine Stops,” based on the 1909 short story by E.M. Forster of the same title.
The Malcolm Interview with Richard Haines
Perhaps even more inspiring than Scott Schuman’s The Sartorialist blog is Richard Haines “What I Saw Today.” A veteran of Calvin Klein, Perry Ellis, and Bill Blass, Richard’s quick sketches of New York’s most stylish capture the essence of his subject’s cool, which allowing enough vaugeness for the look to be interpreted by the viewer. Since starting barely over a year ago, the blog has led to Richard producing in-store portraits and catalog covers for J. Crew. Read his current interview with The Malcolm here.
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