Category: Inspiration
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Eric Sousanis
Use of symbolic metaphor leaps of imagination
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Tracey Emin
See: Google images for Tracey Emin Self Portrait Tate page on Tracey Emin Self
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Stanley Donwood
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Laura Grace Ford
Ford 2018 quoted Wikipedia Laura Grace Ford. Savage Messiah 2011 pxvii Iain Sinclair reviewing the Savage Messiah for The Guardian, quoted Wikipedia Laura Oldfield Ford (also known as Laura Grace Ford born 1973) is a British artist and author. Her work explores political themes and focuses on British urban areas. This draws on her experience of growing up in Halifax,…
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Veronica Lawlor
Veronica Lawlor is a freelance illustrator based in New York. Most of her work is urban sketching and reportage. Her illustrations often include a combination of buildings and landmarks, street furniture, figures, crowds, and transport and convey a sense of place. She is known for her ability to do many fast sketches as well as…
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Evan Turk
Evan Turk is an illustrator, animator, and designer working in New York City. He specializes in travel illustration, on-location event reportage, cultural children’s books, and concept illustration for video games, animation, and advertising. His illustration are very colourful and dramatic. Much of his work is in pastel on coloured paper. Other work is very experimental…
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Saul Steinberg
Saul Steinberg (June 15, 1914 – May 12, 1999) was a Romanian American cartoonist and illustrator. He described himself as “a writer who draws”. He works mostly in pen, often a single black line, to produce complex witty commentary on absurdities of life. In some of his illustrations he also incorporates black and white collaged elements and objects like thumbprints. He…
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George Butler
George Butler specialises in travel and current affairs, particularly about war and migration linked to activism. His drawings, done in situ are in pen, ink and watercolour. Important as much for what he leaves out and implies as what is actually shown.https://www.georgebutler.org
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Olivier Kugler
Olivier Kugler produces graphic documentary with very detailed final drawing and text, often about war and migration.http://www.olivierkugler.com Process “He uses his ears and eyes – plus a camera, digital voice recorder, sketchbook, pencil, scanner and laptop – to document stories of exile, displacement and the complex reality of refugees’ lives“ “When he carries out interviews,…
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Cold War Steve
Political satire collage Cold War Steve is the nom de plume of Christopher Spencer, a British collage artist and satirist. He is the creator of the Twitter feed @Coldwar_Steve. His work typically depicts a grim, dystopian location in England populated by British media figures, celebrities, and politicians, usually with EastEnders actor Steve McFadden (in character as Phil Mitchell) looking on in disgust.[1] His work has been described as having…