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New book highlights how much graphic designers can learn from the small ads of yesteryear

Creative Boom

If you haven't heard of Standards Manual , the Brooklyn-based, independent publishing imprint founded by designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth in 2014, it's about time you did. Now, they're returning to their publishing roots with their latest book, Classified: Local Ads from America's Small Towns.

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This Japanese Studio Creates Fantastically Detailed Illustrations

Design You Trust

IC4DESIGN is a production studio specialized in illustration and graphic design. Their strength is fun and detailed illustrations. Their first picture book series “Pierre the Maze Detective” was published in 2014, 2017 and 2020 and has been translated into over 30 languages (over 33 countries).

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16 of the best online shops to buy original art prints for your home

Creative Boom

Both founders are utterly addicted to Polish posters, and they share the best from this little-known niche on their website: bold, witty and often naively illustrated pieces that they'd proudly hang on their own walls. "We in London in 2014.

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Victo Ngai on the pressures of illustrating well-known book covers

Creative Review

Victo Ngai is an LA-based illustrator from Hong Kong and she’s created editorial illustrations for titles such as the New York Times and New Yorker, while also working on storyboards and animation art for the likes of NBC and Dreamworks. “ I was an only child born to working immigrant parents.

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Cowboys, Gangsters, and Intellectual Humor: The Illustrative World of Glen Baxter

Design You Trust

This English draftsman and artist, born on 4th March 1944 in Leeds, is celebrated for his absurdist illustrations and for creating an overarching effect often reminiscent of literary nonsense. The Impending Gleam, published in 1981, is one of his most recognized satirical works.

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A visual history of Playstation controllers?—?illustrated entirely in Figma

UX Collective

illustrated entirely in Figma Late last Thursday, I was in bed scrolling Instagram and came across a stylized drawing of a Super Nintendo controller. For reference, while this isn’t the actual design, what I saw was something akin to this illustration by Rachit. For whatever reason, I decided to illustrate a Playstation controller.

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Six Centuries, 700 Scientists, 300 Groundbreaking Milestones: A New Book Examines the Invaluable History of Science Illustrations

Colossal

From medicine and biology to chemistry and astronomy, a massive new book published by Taschen chronicles the unparalleled contributions of illustrations to scientific study. Science Illustration. Application of anesthesia, ‘Illustrations of Strange Diseases and Their Surgical Treatments,’ Hanaoka Seish?,