We already featured Irena, a Belgrade-based artist, and architect, some time ago for a series ofillustrations featured in architecture … [Read more...]
William Heath Robinson’s Wacky Inventions
William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) was a victorian cartoonist best known for drawing overly complicated mechanisms able to achieve only simple … [Read more...]
A Visual Compendium of the Real World: Illustrations by Takeda Yoshifumi
Takeda Yoshifumi is a Japanese illustrator and painter currently base in Tokyo. His work consists mostly of small, detailed illustrations with a … [Read more...]
S.Tigerman and G.L. Crabtree: The Formal Generators of Structure, 1975
"The Formal Generators of Structure" is a sequence of drawings which explore orthogonal forms. The research starts from the square and the cross, two … [Read more...]
Inside Outside: Illustrations by Michael Kirkham
Michael Kirkham is an illustrator living in Edinburgh and working internationally. In many of his works he shows a specific interest in the built … [Read more...]
Storytelling with Forms and Patterns: Prints and Textiles by Hannah Waldron
Hannah Waldron is a British print and textile multi-disciplinary artist. Her works display an interesting array of patterns, architectural forms, … [Read more...]
Andrew DeGraff’s Unfinished Construction Sites
Illustrator and painter Andrew DeGraff is working on a series of sketches of unfinished construction sites with a surreal twist. The axonometric … [Read more...]
Scissors Series by Chiara Dattola
Personal sorrow gave our dear friend Chiara Dattola the strength to produce her more intense drawings so far. "I like scissors. Lately I've started … [Read more...]
Miniatura (Searching Analogous Relations in São Paulo’s Incongruous Reality)
Bruna Canepa is an illustrator, architect, writer for the music blog Suppaduppa and co-founder of Miniatura, a project she created with architect and … [Read more...]
Colourful Interior Design for the Sonneveld House (Brinkman and Van der Vlugt, 1929-1933)
After the 1929 stock market crash, no big architectural commission was in sight for Dutch architects Brinkman and Van der Vlugt. Thus the … [Read more...]
E.L. Youmans’s “Chemical Atlas: Or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects” (1854)
"Every experienced teacher understands the necessity of making the acquisition of the elementary and foundation principles upon which a … [Read more...]
A Revolution in Stage Design: Drawings and Productions of Adolphe Appia
Adolphe Appia, (1862-1928) was a Swiss architect, stage designer and theorist of stage lighting and décor. His theories and realized works … [Read more...]
The World Explained by Kappa Senoo
Kappa Senoo (1930) is a Japanese graphic designer, a successfull set designer, essayist and novelist. A 1997 autobiographical book depicting … [Read more...]
“Must it Stay that Way?” Critical Posters by Gunter Rambow (1971)
In 1971, German graphic designer and photographer Gunter Rambow produced a series of posters tackling the failing realm of urban planning and building … [Read more...]
Drawing the Naked City: Shohei Manabe
What is striking in the precise drawings of the japanese comic artist Manabe Shohei is their ability to immediately express the feeling of a street or … [Read more...]
Bruno Taut: The City Crown (1919)
Second part of our series of posts on Bruno Taut, after "Bruno Taut: The Earth is a Good Dwelling (1919)" This is a translated version of part of … [Read more...]
“The true story of Mr Like”, By Nanni and Colella – Crowdfunding Campaign
As you may have / already / noticed, we particularly like the work of Italian author, illustrator and comic artist Giacomo Nanni, namely his studies … [Read more...]
Peter Behrens’s Drawings (1922-29)
Considered for a long time eclectic and contradictory, Peter Behrens's stylistic research shows, conversely, a rigourous consistency, as it has been … [Read more...]
Hans Hollein’s Alles Ist Architektur (1968)
“Everything is architecture“, Hans Hollein announced in the 1968 (1/2) edition of the “Bau“ journal. As correctly explained by Ethel Baraona, he was … [Read more...]
The Creation of the World According to Moses by Wilhelm & Jan Goeree, 1690
(Originally titled: De Schepping der Wereldt Volgens de Beschryving van Mozes) Via: Willigula and Invisible … [Read more...]
Ettore Sottsass jr., Mobile and Flexible Environment Module, 1972
In 1972 Ettore Sottssas Jr. imagines a domestic environment composed of a networked system of grey plastic containers, equipped with sliding wheels … [Read more...]
The Diesel Era Lithographs of Louis Lozowick (1920’s to 1940’s)
The Diesel era immortalized in the powerful lithographs of Louis Lozowick (December 10, 1892 – September 9, 1973). Born in the Russian Empire, … [Read more...]
A Selection of Texture Based Sketches by Giacomo Nanni
This series of drawings has been recently posted by Italian illustrator and comic artist (and friend) Giacomo Nanni. An ongoing exploration of … [Read more...]
Francesco Chiacchio, Illustrations for Emile Zola’s Germinal
Friend and illustrator Francesco Chiacchio has created the illustrations for a version of Emile Zola's Germinal by , curated by Daniele Garbuglia for … [Read more...]
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