Posts tagged illustration
Drawing New York City
Via Atlantic Cities:
James Gulliver Hancock wants you to know about a little personal project of his. It’s nothing big, really. Just something he does whenever he has the chance. The project is to draw all 900,000 buildings in New York City. Like we said, nothing major.
Hancock began his epic effort in April of 2010 along with a personal blog where he posted many of the finished works. More than 500 of the buildings in New York that he’s drawn so far were just published in the very appropriately titled book: All the Buildings in New York: That I’ve Drawn So Far (Universe).
Read through for an interview with Hancock. Prints of the drawings are available on Hancock’s web site.
Images: various New York City buildings, by James Gulliver Hancock.
Alright everyone, I am teaching an online class through skillshare.com about political illustration. This class is open to all of my 60,000 followers and also the general public.
Class begins on April 15th, so you have about a month to sign up for the class. This will be a great opportunity for all of you who have asked me for advice, and any art student or person who has interest in politics.
The class costs $15, but from now until March 28th I will be offering a limited discount. The first 20 people who enter the code ARTUNION will receive $5 off of the class cost. If those run out I may offer more.
For more information or to sign up, click here.
FJP: I can’t draw outside of stick figures but this is fantastic. — Michael
Happy Easter from The FJP
Illustration by Jonathan Roy, The Wanderings of Walter.
75 scientific mysteries, illustrated by 75 of today’s most exciting artists
FJP: The video trailer for the book is just awesome.
There was an old woman who lived in a…
Via Sirolta Ban. October 2011, Hungary.
Sometimes something is too provocative or too sexist or too racist but it will inspire a line of thinking that will help develop an image that is publishable.
Françoise Mouly, Art Editor, the New Yorker, on how she works with artists on the magazine’s covers. Secrets of the New Yorker cover.
Mouly’s just published a book called Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See, that shows rejected work and the sketches made in the process of arriving at the covers that ended being used.
The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved
The Kentucky Derby runs tomorrow. As you prep yourself with refreshing adult beverage make sure to reread and share Hunter S. Thompson’s seminal article, and Ralph Steadman’s illustrations, on the event.
ESPN’s Grantland republishes it — with light commentary — here.
Today’s Keith Haring Google Doodle.
An Illustrated Future of the New York Times
ImageThink put together this very nice illustration for a talk given by the New York Times’ Jill Abramson at SXSW about the newspaper’s future.
Select to embiggen.
Happy Valentines Day
Here are a few of our favorite Google Valentine Doodles over the years.
Images: Google Doodles (and commentary) via Network World.
Happy 200th Birthday, Charles Dickens!
As part of the celebration, England’s Royal Mail is releasing stamps to commemorate the author.
Says Philip Parker, a Royal Mail spokesperson, “Charles Dickens was one of the truly great British novelists, a man born into poor circumstances who went on to change the world in which he lived thanks not just to his novels, but his campaigning journalism and philanthropy.”
Image: A Nicholas Nickleby stamp with an illustration by Hablot Knight Browne. Nickleby was Dickens’ third novel, appearing as a serial from 1838 through 1839.
NFL Economics with Bill Maher
In a “New Rules” segment, Bill Maher argues that the NFL is so successful because its share the wealth economics mirror the “socialist” policies of US Democrats while the MLB is less successful because of its Republican oriented capitalism.
Independently, London-based animator Fraser Davidson took the audio and interpreted it with some Soviet-era style graphics.
The Atlantic explores the socialist NFL versus the capitalist Major Leagues here.
Slate’s take on it is here.
Happy Halloween from the FJP
Bonus points, Part 01: Vintage Horror Radio (via iTunes).
Bonus points, Part 02: The Longform.org Guide to Creeps and Creepiness.
Bonus points, Part 03: Close Your Ears, a Slate review of Tales from Beyond the Pale, neu-Radio Horror storytelling.
Bonus points, Part 04: War of the Worlds 1938 Radio Broadcast.
Image: It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, by Tom Whalen.
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