Feature: Illustration
The rules of the game
For George Hardie, illustration is a problem-solving process: collecting looking and drawing with…
Flights of fancy
Si Scott made his name with baroque combinations of type and image, but his 3D paper insects are taking…
Machine head
Fritz Kahn commissioned illustrators to realise his surreal pedagogical vision – mechanical metaphors…
10,000 one offs
Field’s 10,000 ‘illustrations’ for SEA’s GF Smith paper swatch give a new dimension to variable…
Stories unfolding in time and space
With a revival of journalistic visual essays in US magazines, illustrators are once again becoming…
Time, motion, symbol, line
Choreographers through the centuries have made brave, often beautiful attempts to visualise and record…
Big subject, little pictures
Joe Sacco uses the comics medium to describe the lives of Palestinians
Look away
‘The South’, Seymour Chwast’s special civil rights issue of Push Pin Graphic, was a virtuoso display of…
Reputations: Maira Kalman
‘I was out walking the dear dog and I saw 500 things that made me want to make art.’
Mystery and clarity
These children’s book illustrations captured moments of social history