Lani Yamamoto's books have been a big inspiration to me. I love her books on every level, for the topics they tackle, for her simple line illustrations that speak volumes, for her inventiveness and for her extraordinary sense of color. Many moons ago I worked at a bookstore and told anyone that would listen that they should buy the Albert series.
I share the books I picked up in Italy incredibly illustrated by: Nicoletta Costa, Manuela Santini, Emmanuele Luzzati and Altan.
A follow-up post on illustrator Mel Dietmeier and his hilarious French for Mastery text book illustrations.
A closer look at Sara Fanelli's raw illustrations in My Map Book.
The Vine app is a place for animators to shine. We check in on some of the best...
Frank Gelett Burgess' GOOPS signify our faults and flaws. Which one are you?
Rosemary Well's Max's Chocolate Chicken makes me laugh every time. Bonus video!
My friend Diana, from Germany, is visiting this week. We met back when I lived (and studied illustration) in Leipzig. Diana is a linguist; she studies an endangered language in Nepal and has interesting things to say about the role of picture books in endangered language communities. More on that some other time. But since I’m thinking about Germany today, I wanted to mention a few German illustrators whose work I like a lot. The […]
I’m really into bold, minimal, modern, poster-y illustrations right now, which I guess is what happens to your brain when you start working in silkscreen. Even though I think of myself as a maximalist, like LET’S PUT IN LOTS OF TINY DETAILS EVERYWHERE IN SCRITCHY SCRATCHY LINE. This modern stuff is more Robin or Ruthie’s bailiwick (Exhibit A: our avatars), so it feels a little funny to write this post. But BRIGHT COLORS and SHAPEY […]
Kathleen Griffin's Kickstarter campaign to make bronze butterflies fly away with an abandoned hospital seems like something straight out of Roald Dahl book.
This beautiful vintage French cookbook for kids belongs to my friend, Cybele. Check out that chef baby on the cover! La Cuisine est un Jeu D’enfants was published in 1965 and, according to the jacket flap, “Any child who cooks from this book is well on the road to culinary success, and his elders will have to borrow the book or hire a French chef to keep up with him.” I love the simple, bold illustrations […]
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