Sabena Airlines
October 20th, 2010
In the Modern Ephemera Society pool on Flickr. Wish I knew the artist, the fauvist illustration style is pretty amazing.
Archive for the 'illustration' Category
Sign Painters
March 1st, 2010
"Before there was vinyl printing there were big brick walls and craftsmen who covered said walls with their commercial artwork."
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme - but does it float
December 17th, 2009
Erik Nitsche’s collections on Flickr
November 28th, 2009
Polish Space Stamps 1963
November 28th, 2009
Anatomy of Japanese folk monsters
October 19th, 2009
"Yōkai Daizukai, an illustrated guide to yōkai authored by manga artist Shigeru Mizuki, features a collection of cutaway diagrams showing the anatomy of 85 traditional monsters from Japanese folklore."
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
June 5th, 2009
A collection of books of historical illustration and decoration. via agfa8x, more or less.
Tim Gough interview
April 10th, 2009
Interview with one of my favorite illustrators.
Letman
January 16th, 2009
Amazing.
The Painted Building
November 30th, 2008
"With the watercolor, in the quickest way, I could shape a volume, cast a shadow, indicate the direction of the sun in a very small format. And I could carry these things around because I was always traveling.”
Zina Saunders
November 30th, 2008
"This time of year, I have to visit the hives every two or three weeks. I have the help of Antoine, who is a taxi cab driver, who stops every day that I'm in the market to talk about bees and he takes me around to my locations. I teach him everything I know about bees, and so he doesn't charge me."
The Measue of a President
October 6th, 2008
The result seems to be essentially meaningless, I think because the sample size is underwhelming. Might make more sense divided into pre-tv and post-tv. Notes: Carter's little interpolated grin is charming, G. W. Bush's hook hands less so; Madison was really small, and Taft was not.
Science and Society Picture Library
April 16th, 2008
"SSPL represents over a million images from the Science Museum, the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television and the National Railway Museum."
Audubon’s Birds of America
April 16th, 2008
Complete, browsable, searchable, online version of Birds of America.
The Illustrated President
January 24th, 2008
Our President's interpretation of the subject of this painting is somewhat at odds with it's historically verifiable context, in a humorously apt way. But this account begs the question (again): what is the place of the viewer in interpretation?
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
January 10th, 2008
Theoretician of the synapse, and incredible medical illustrator.
Vancouver 2010 Mascots
December 1st, 2007
Oh, jiminy cricket are these drawings ever cute. Also! Canada! Quit being better than us, with your suddenly strong dollar and your Olympic mascots that are all mythological creatures!
The Superest
October 23rd, 2007
Successive rounds of drawings of superheroes/-villians whose special powers beat the special powers of the superheroes/-villians from the round before.
Pencils and Stars
September 11th, 2007
Fantastic compositing by the Nonist of six separate renderings of the July 18th 1860 solar eclipse.
Fiodor Sumkin
July 17th, 2007
I was reminded of this while browsing typographica.org this evening. Really incredibly detailed and vital drawings.