Category Archives: Illustration

Butcher, Baker, Alpha­bet Maker

July 12th, 2010
Jes­sica His­che is one of the most eagerly anti­cip­ated speak­ers at Semi-Permanent 2010. Sam Eichblatt tracked her down in New York. From ProDesign 107 with addi­tional images. It’s a decept­ively simple idea, but a stroke of genius when it comes to self-promotion. A young Brooklyn-based type designer leaves her day job to go freel­ance in Septem­ber 2009, and [...]
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Feel­ing Cheeky?

May 4th, 2010
Cats, wolves, butts and beer… and Lady­hawke… and T-shirts for Haiti. Illus­trator Sarah Lar­nach shares some thoughts on her pro­fes­sion. From ProDesign 106 with addi­tional images. ProDesign \\ Sarah, how did you get into illus­tra­tion? Sarah Lar­nach \\ Two years ago I found myself sim­ul­tan­eously mak­ing ‘fan art’ por­traits for a book by Amanda Max­well, and embark­ing [...]
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The Art of Eve

March 10th, 2010
The cover story of ProDesign 105 is all about Eve. Ham­ish Thompson takes a look back at the fash­ion illus­tra­tion of Kate Coo­la­han. Words: Ham­ish Thompson. Images: Kate Coo­la­han, cour­tesy Te Papa Pic­ture Lib­rary (online ver­sion of story fea­tures addi­tional images). The fash­ion illus­tra­tion of Kate Coo­la­han feels uncan­nily famil­iar, though few of us would remem­ber her [...]
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Shang­hai to Ohakune

November 19th, 2009
Some of the life and times of illus­trator Den­nis Beytagh Words: Ham­ish Thompson My first encounter with Den­nis Beytagh was a poster all blue and green and busy – pro­mot­ing New Zealand’s tour­ist delights to weary Lon­don com­muters in the 1960s. The design cap­tiv­ated me, with its feel-alive mix of good humour and acute obser­va­tion. It turned out [...]
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