Illustration

I recently looked around platforms like Creative Market and Adobe Stock for vintage Christmas graphics, and I have to say that many of the...

Contemporary Japanese Posters is a reference book dressed up as a coffee table book. Buy it for reference. Giancarlo Calza edited this Japanese graphic...

Japanese Design Since 1945 is the best single-volume reference on postwar Japanese objects in English. Naomi Pollock's sourcebook also weighs 5.4 pounds, and that...

A single eye peeking out from under an orange blanket sold me on this poster before I read a single word of the description....

I've tried a handful of smart notebooks over the years, and most of them ended up in a drawer within a month. So when...

James Edmondson built OH no Type Co. into one of the most recognizable names in independent type design, and now he's put the whole...

Acrylic paint markers are having a strange moment. Everybody suddenly owns a set, but almost nobody uses them correctly. I tested nineteen acrylic paint...

Sure, great notebooks and pens do not make you a better designer. But the wrong ones will quietly slow you down for years, one...

Fineliners are personal. Ask any illustrator, pattern designer, or sketchbook obsessive, and they'll tell you exactly which pen they reach for first—a Uni PIN...

Traditional drawing never went away. It just got smarter. While AI-generated imagery dominates creative feeds and digital tools grow more sophisticated each year, professional...

The Amazon has always been a brand. Not by design, but by sheer force of existence. It is the largest tropical rainforest on the...

Something shifted. Not gradually — abruptly. After nearly a decade of hyper-polished, algorithm-optimized visual culture, designers worldwide are reaching back into the drawer of...