Feature: Illustration
Mystery and clarity
These children’s book illustrations captured moments of social history
Reputations: Maira Kalman
‘I was out walking the dear dog and I saw 500 things that made me want to make art.’
Day-Glo mind blow
Psychedelia hit late 1960s London in an explosion of silk-screen colour
Quiet spirit of joy
By championing pattern-making, art and ephemera, the Curwen Press brought a new ‘Comfy Modernism’ to…
Picture books: luxury and meaning
The design of lavish illustrated tomes often shows a lack of confidence, or perhaps a confident lack of…
Theatre of dreams
Andrzej Klimowski is obsessed with eyes, faces, hands, angels and devils. He is one of Britain’s most…
Stop making sense
The best-loved children’s stories are for adults too. Five American illustrators push at the boundaries…