Illustration Art

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Illustrator Robert Blechman's tiny, distinctive drawings became a phenomenon in the 1960s. Blechman graduated from college with virtually no artistic training and no portfolio except the work he had done for a college literary magazine. He later recalled, Nothing could have been more impractical than becoming a professional illustrator. My style--such as it was-- had no precedents and therefore no clear outlets.

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Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

So you love HTML5. You’re psyched that the IE9 beta looks so promising, because you’ve got enough IE6 war stories, though personally you’re rocking the latest Firefox nightly. Sometimes you can’t remember what life was like before jQuery, but in a pinch you’re prepared to roll your own library. (Which, let’s face it, makes you feel a little like MacGyver, and you like working with folks who notice.

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Illustration Art

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Seymour Chwast Some readers didn't like the traditional figure drawings in my previous post: I can't believe such pointless work is still being appreciated today. Anyone can achieve the same thing in half a second with a camera. My camera is capable of interpretations too, I can set it to add filters and thus alter the actual captured photons. After all, you can call every human drawing an interpretation.

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