Analogue illustration: joy and beauty

A hand-drawn illustration featuring textures and patterns made with a lead pencil, a bird, a house and the words "I made this with my pencil".

Is there still a place for analogue illustration and art? Yes. Digital art is pretty new on the scene. We have been making pictures for over 40,000 years, and have had access to decent digital drawing tools for… twenty years at the most. I would hate to think that people believe that we can’t make […]

Graphic design: Jennifer’s portfolio became a gorgeous book

Front cover of book about Jennifer Forsberg

Jennifer Forsberg makes fantastic public sculptures that liven up parks, school yards, hospitals and other public spaces around Sweden. Her works are, in most cases, abstract, and feature wonderful bulbous, organic shapes that make me think of mountains, sand dunes, stalagmites and mystical creatures. This is the the third project that Jennifer and I have […]

An illustrator’s sketchbook: works in progress

Watercolour illustration on paper showing the head and upper torso of a medieval style soldier.

An illustrator’s sketchbook is where the creative magic starts. For me they are an essential playground where messy, badly-drawn, half-baked ideas some out into the world. Some go on to become a finished illustration (or layout for a design), some stay there on the page. My ideas take form better on paper than on a […]