Illustration Archive

The Kama Sutra Alphabet

The Kama Sutra Alphabet is a personal project from French born and London based illustrator Malika Favre. In 2011, Malika was commissioned by Paul Buckley at Penguin Books US to illustrate the new Deluxe Classic Cover of the Kama Sutra by Vatsyayana. Using the original set of 7 letters she created for the cover as a starting point, Malika then decided to develop the full set of 26 letters as part of an exhibition project. Each letter is a very limited edition of 25 screenprints, signed and numbered by the artist.

Windows of New York

The Windows of New York project is a weekly illustrated fix for an obsession that has increasingly grown in José Guízar since chance put him in this town. A product of countless steps of journey through the city streets, this is a collection of windows that somehow have caught José’s restless eye out from the never-ending buzz of the city. This project is part an ode to architecture and part a self-challenge to never stop looking up.

Naked

Eiko Ojala is a illustrator, graphic designer and art director with over 8 years experience. He lives in Tallinn, Estonia. His interests include paper collage, illustration, graphic design particularly aimed towards books and magazines.

Iconic Music Outfits

Like their music, outfits from music stars can be quite iconic. In the following illustrations, the viewer will see more than just the outfit. It’s about an era in music and fashion, about outfits worn by some of the more extravagant people the musicworld has seen. The text in the illustration states where (and when) these outfits have been worn.

(Re)Flag

MGMT Design is a graphic design studio based in Brooklyn, New York which made a confronting visualisation of the US flag. They converted various data into a new national flag designs. Each flag has it’s own message. From teen pregnancy, to gun ownership and energy consumption, a lot of sensitive subjects are visualised.

A deck of playing cards

Tyler Deeb has been working hard over the last 3 months designing a custom deck of playing cards. To pay for printing costs, he has started a KickStarter page to earn support.

Point Of View

Inspired by Gestalt psychology, Fabio D’Altilia has created a fun set that will make you look twice at each image. In particular, Fabio addresses multistable perception, which is the tendency for us to go back and forth between two or more interpretations.

The Type Faces

Last summer, before moving to Amsterdam, Tiago Pinto took some time off and in between dinners with friends and days of fun he spent some time doing “not-so-far-from-work-stuff”, like photography or graphics. It was a way to keep his mind busy with different subjects, ideas and techniques. One of the topics he focused on was typography. Fonts. Typefaces. Type Faces. For Tiago every font has a face, since they’re different from each other they kind of have their own personality. That’s how The Type Faces project was born, starting with the Futura’s good looking mid-life man, the Italian Bodini with a fashionable moustache, the sad Courier New and the not so handsome Comic Sans.

Casa Bosques

Casa Bosques, an initiative of Savvy Studio, is a creative platform that develops products of a permanent and sustainable nature by collaborating with experts in various disciplines who share this same philosophy. The guiding concept behind Casa Bosques is to bring each project to its maximum capacity and expression. This is why Each CBB project is carefully manufactured using high quality raw materials. Collaborators are thoughtfully selected; Casa Bosques looks for experts that are passionate about their specialties, and also feel motivated by the constant search for perfection. Casa Bosques develops versatile, seasonal projects that complement a special way of living and thinking.

The Tattooed Poster

In a celebration of some of 2011′s most newsworthy events, Munich’s Chaos Crew Tattoo Studio created a massive poster that shows the true art of tattooing by using a large piece of calfskin. By using the skin instead of creating an image and transferring the work to paper, the integrity of the original piece of art remains intact…

Copyrighted Famous Hairs

There are certain iconic figures in pop culture that can be defined simply by their hair. In this minimalist series by graphic designer Patrícia Póvoa, we see some of these legendary coifs that need no introduction. The silhouetted hairstyles stand alone against a radiantly colored backdrop in the Portuguese artist’s series titled Copyrighted Famous Hairs.

Just In Case

If the end of the world is indeed in 2012, we better be ready in a stylish way. Menosunocerouno thought of a minimalistic designed case as a minimum survival kit. Just In Case holds everything you need to survive for a few days.

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