Kevin Lucbert (Paris, 1985) is a young illustrator who got a diploma in 2008 at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Ensad) in Paris … [Read more...]
Representation: Axonometric projection
The axonometric projection is a parallel projection, usually detaching the viewer from the scene and emphasizing the level of abstraction in the representation of the subject. Mostly employed for technical drawings, axonometrics can be as expressive as any other projection while keeping the ability of being highly descriptive. An axonometric image allows to place on the same level very different layers of informations on a space which is non-hierarchical and isotropic. The complexity of a scene is underlined while its contradictions are resolved by making them peacefully cohabit in the same frame.
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“Along the River During the Qingming Festival” by Zhang Zeduan (12th Century) and an 18th Century Remake
"Along the River During the Qingming Festival" is a Chinese artwork attributed to the Song Dynasty artist Zhang Zeduan (1085–1145) and painted over a … [Read more...]
Suburbia and Other Catastrophes: Drawings by Jeremy Profit
The visual universe of French illustrator Jeremy Profit is located somewhere in a generic suburban environment, where sprawled houses, streets and … [Read more...]
Allan Wexler’s Axonometrics of the House (1979)
Some days ago we featured on Socks a set of cray landscape models by US architect, artist and teacher Allan Wexler. Today we focus on a smaller scale, … [Read more...]
Richard Giblett’s Architectural Algorithms
Richard Giblett (B.1966, Hong Kong), an artist living and working in Melbourne, creates bi and three-dimensional works as explorations of urban … [Read more...]
Franco Purini: Study of Architectural Elements (1968)
The number 11-12 (Nov-Dec 1972) of Italian architecture magazine Controspazio presented a retrospective of the earliest "design researches" by the … [Read more...]
Axonometric Drawings by Icinori
Icinori is a duo based in France, formed by illustrators and graphic designers Raphael Urwiller and Mayumi Otero (the work of the latter was already … [Read more...]
House E.1027 by Eileen Gray illustrated by Josephin Ritschel
Josephin Ritschel (Mevameva) is an illustrator living and working in Berlin. We originally knew her thanks to Wrap Magazine that used the illustration … [Read more...]
“Under the Mountain” by Jamie Mills
"Under the mountain" is a small sequence of axonometric illustrations by Jamie Mills: a story of progressive colonization of built … [Read more...]
‘Forest’ and Other Interpretations of Nature by Jamie Mills
A series of drawings by English artist, illustrator & animator Jamie Mills show commodified fragments of fauna and flora … [Read more...]
Unreal Estates of China, by Map Office
MAP OFFICE (Gutierrez, Portefaix) recently published a book titled Unreal Estates of China, with 56 axonometric drawings of China's land- and city … [Read more...]
