Category: Illustration (Page 8 of 10)

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog

January 13, 2016 / / 0 Comments

New Yorker cartoon

Oh, how I love the humor in the cartoons of the New Yorker!

You must have heard it before, when they say “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” and I am always amused by it. 

Today I stumbled upon this saying in an article and decided to look it up: It’s a saying which actually began as a cartoon caption by Peter Steiner and published by The New Yorker on July 5, 1993.  A few years later, this was the magazine’s most reproduced cartoon and, at the time, it symbolized internet privacy and the ability of users to send and receive messages in general anonymity.

Archibet – an illustrated alphabet of architects

December 1, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Archibet_A_Aalto

Archibet_E_Eames

Archibet_H_HerzogDeMeuron

Archibet_S_CarloScarpa

Archibet_V_MiesVandeRohe

Archibet_W_FLWright

Archibet_Z_ZahaHadid

Archibet-ALL

The buildings of 26 important architects are transformed into letters of the alphabet in this series of whimsical illustrations by Federico Babina. The Barcelona-based architect and graphic artist says “the idea on which the Archibet project is based is to find a way to express the diversity of forms and styles that make up the architecture. Each letter is a small surrealist building that becomes part of an imaginary city made up of different shapes and styles that speak the same language of architecture”.

Typewriter art

November 26, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Leslie_Nichols_detail

Kaitlin, Leslie Nichols

Kaitlin detail, Leslie Nichols

Leslie Nichols, Jessica

Leslie Nichols, Lindsay

Leslie Nichols, Marlee

I love these artworks by Leslie Nichols, actually created on her manual typewriter. Nichols began to create her unique textual portraits after being gifted a typewriter and, upon deciding that she wasn’t destined to be a writer, began to use the typewriter to create meaningful drawings.

The selection is from her highly successful series Textual Portraits, where she portrays contemporary women that emerge from classic social texts “just as they emerge into specific contexts of time and place”.

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Album de lettres

October 20, 2015 / / 1 Comment

Album du peintre en batîment - painted letters1 vintageAlbum du peintre en batîment - painted letters2 vintage Album du peintre en batîment - painted letters3 vintage Album du peintre en batîment - painted letters4 vintage

N. Glaise was a painter in Paris. In 1882, he published a booklet with these gorgeous hand-painted alphabets as a guideline for hand-lettered signage on buildings.

I just love the look of these vintage alphabets and have already used some of them for inspiration in my lettering moodboards.

You can view and download all the album here.

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