Craig Phillips
I really like the work of Craig Phillips, an Australian illustrator whose notable achievements include creating the cover art for the new EP from Sydney band Lions At Your Door and being named as one of the 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide (Leurzers Archive).
His work often graces the pages of Rolling Stone, and he is also a favourite cover illustrator of publishing house, Simon & Schuster. Phillips’ illustrations blend bold lines and colours with an ethereal feel. Some of his works, such as The High Priestess, are reminiscent of the style of Art Nouveau artists such as Aubrey Beardsley. Others, such as his fantasy-themed work, remind me of paintings done by science-pulp fiction artists of the fifties, such as Ron Turner.
Tagged: Aubrey Beardsley, Craig Phillips illustration, Lions At Your Door, Ron Turner., Simon & Schuster
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Picture a future in which climate change and exhausted coal supplies have left humans in need of inventive ways of living in an inhospitable landscape. Then combine it with two inch high yellow plastic people and a bunch of interlocking plastic bricks and you have Dave DeGobbi’s Lego Crawler Town, a fantastically detailed, miniaturized solution to life in a post-apocalyptic world. Read more
sOccket: the energy generating soccer ball
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San Francisco illustrator Caitlin Kuhwald’s cleanly rendered paintings really hit the figurative spot. It’s so refreshing to come across an illustrator who still gets kicks from beautifully rendering a face, every strand of hair, every wrinkle in their clothing, and then turn around and subvert it all with a big bag of creative tricks. Read more
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My friend Josh Van Horne, a local Baltimore artist, did this amazing mural in our neighborhood that depicts the history of this warehouse-laden area.
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