Feature: Illustration
Told in pictures
Wordless picturebooks form a corner of children’s literature in which illustrators and artists tell stories with images alone.
Puffins on the plate
How the Russian revolution – plus new technology – led to a colourful and radical change in children’s book publishing.
Milan’s anarchic Modernist
Alessandro Colizzi explores the Futurist past of Bruno Munari, the eclectic, prolific designer-illustrator of Mussolini’s Italy.
Miss Fixit
Tina Roth Eisenberg never had a business plan. But all the things she dreams up – the Swissmiss blog, ‘creative mornings’, stick-on tattoos – pay off. By Steven Heller
The rules of the game
For George Hardie, illustration is a problem-solving process: collecting looking and drawing with exactitude
Flights of fancy
Si Scott made his name with baroque combinations of type and image, but his 3D paper insects are taking his work in new directions.
Machine head
Fritz Kahn commissioned illustrators to realise his surreal pedagogical vision – mechanical metaphors for the human body.
10,000 one offs
Field’s 10,000 ‘illustrations’ for SEA’s GF Smith paper swatch give a new dimension to variable data printing
Stories unfolding in time and space
With a revival of journalistic visual essays in US magazines, illustrators are once again becoming integral contributors to the editorial mix
Time, motion, symbol, line
Choreographers through the centuries have made brave, often beautiful attempts to visualise and record their work. Technology provides new means, but scoring a moving, dancing body in four dimensions remains elusive