Posted By: Colin Berry
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, December 10, 2004
How does The U.S. Army's 4th Psychological Operations Group use design to win wars? Berry analyzes the graphic language of propaganda warfare.
Posted By: Barbara Rietschel and Jean Dahlgren
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, November 19, 2004
How do you illustrate Beckett? Kuhlman's work for Grove Press married abstract art with avant garde literature, capturing the spirit of the times.
Posted By: Jennifer McKnight
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, October 12, 2004
The design/illustration hybrid student combines skills from both fields. How do we educate hybrids?
Posted By: Jandos Rothstein
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Thursday, August 19, 2004
Do liberals have a lock on illustration? Does the right have viable image-makers? Rothstein looks at the state of partisan illustration.
Posted By: Elaine Lustig Cohen
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Thursday, June 03, 2004
How does Lustig's graphic work measure up today? Lustig Cohen examines her favorites and his lasting contributions to design history.
Posted By: Steven Heller
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Thursday, March 18, 2004
Has illustration been marginalized? Or is the best of the genre still an effective means of communicating difficult ideas? Heller examines how momentous editorial art is made.
Posted By: Milton Glaser
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Are editorial illustrators just hired hands or should they think for themselves? A Wall Street Journal editor says no, Glaser questions why. Blechman and Niemann reveal what editors really want in their visual commentary (right).
Posted By: Dan Nadel
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, February 17, 2004
What do raw comics and fine typography have in common? Nadel traces the “trash to treasure” story of America's favorite art form.
Posted By: Lisa Zeitz
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Wednesday, February 19, 2003
"Neue Illustration", an exhibition by eleven German illustrators at NYU's Deutsches Haus, celebrates the small-press publishing that has taken place since 1989, with a lively collection of illustrated books, posters and drawings.
Posted By: Milton Glaser, Steven Heller & Brad Holland
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Wednesday, February 19, 2003
André François, the great graphic artist and painter has suffered a terrible loss. Just before Christmas there was a fire in his studio which consumed most of his life's work.
Posted By: Dugald Stermer
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, September 17, 2002
A familiar colloquy: At a party a young woman asked what I "did," meaning, I assumed, for a living. When I answered, "I'm an illustrator," she looked at me blankly for a couple of seconds, then brightened and said, "Children's books."
Posted By: Jamie Bufalino
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, May 10, 2002
The thing I love about this illo is how it perfectly captures the essence of The West Wing: the painting-like quality evokes the larger than life aura of Martin Sheen's TV president; the setting sun in the background and the Uncle-Sam-Wants-You pose stir up feelings of patriotism
Posted By: Susan Morrison
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, May 10, 2002
I like this illustration because it doesn't compete with the text for laughs, but it quietly echoes and amplifies the humor in the piece. Very often, when artists are illustrating a humor piece, they'll try to be funny too
Posted By: AIGA
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, March 15, 2002
Illustration is able to transcend the limits of the written word.It is an art of opposites,an intricate dance between art and commerce that is created by people who find freedom in solving visual riddles and in filling dictated space with inventiveness,creativity and added value.
Posted By: Brad Holland
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, March 15, 2002
As one of the founders of Pushpin Studios in 1954, Milton Glaser helped revive illustration in the 1960?s when photography was thought to have swept the field.
Posted By: Alan M. Webber
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, March 15, 2002
Since editors are by nature a cranky sort (and since I am, by nature, cranky even by editor standards), let me turn the question around and tell you what makes a *bad* illustration.
Posted By: Laurie Rosenwald
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, March 15, 2002
Oh, come on. Everybody knows that illustration is nothing. Nothing compared to graphic design. Nothing compared to photography.
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