Feature: Illustration
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…