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Andreas Samuelsson Updates

Words by Alex Bec, Friday 20 August 2010

Andreas rarely puts a foot wrong in the squishy ‘charmed’ bit of my brain. His site makes the corners of my mouth turn with every little addition, and my thirst for block coloured naivety has been well and truly quenched with his latest.

Beyond Dementia exhibition features artworks and curation by people with the condition 27 July 2017
Creatives' favourite music videos: the inspirational, forbidden and political 27 July 2017
Scott Sheffield examines tourism in the small towns surrounding America’s National Parks 27 July 2017
ECAL photography graduate Cécilia Poupon elevates everyday beauty 27 July 2017
Illustrator Franz Lang draws your daily struggles 27 July 2017
Graffiti, murals and design: Jake Foreman illustrates all mediums in new zine, Flash 27 July 2017

Work / Illustration Illustrator Franz Lang draws your daily struggles

Franz Lang is an Italian illustrator currently working and living in London. “I always had a passion for drawing. My mother recalls from when I used to paint on the walls of our apartment and how I yelled ‘I want to be an artist!’,” Franz laughs. When studying at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, Franz decided to attend an illustration course. “It was love at first sight.”

Bryony Stone — 27 July 2017
Work / Illustration Noa Snir visualises mental disorders through her series of minimalist linocut prints

Illustrator Noa Snir’s black and white linocut series explores psychological disorders, phobias and syndromes through pared-back interpretations. The project first came to life as an A5 publication a couple of years ago and Noa has continued with the project since, which has led to an exhibition of the prints in O! Galeria in Porto opening this week.

Rebecca Fulleylove — 27 July 2017
Work / Illustration Michael DeForge’s mysterious, ominous illustrations

Illustrator and comics artist Michael DeForge is a man of few words: “I draw comics in Toronto, Ontario,” he tells us by way of introduction. With a Cintiq tablet as his main tool, Michael draws a daily comic called Leaving Richards Valley which he tells us he serialises online. Elsewhere, he makes books and illustrations.

Bryony Stone — 26 July 2017
Work / Illustration Jesús Sotés folkish work draws darker themes into his commercial illustration

Jesús Sotés’ dark, folk-like images can be eerie and unsettling. He is adept at finding ways to create uncomfortable forms and characters and over the past 15 years has been successful in finding commissions for his unconventional style across editorial and commercial projects. “I really think that it is my darker side that captures the potential client’s attention. But for different reasons I often end up with a kind of work that, sometimes, is far from the work that I really would like to do,” says self-taught Jesús. “Frequently, commissions are very defined and limited by commercial aspects and art directors. These parameters sometimes act as a brake to my creativity but I’m going to reconcile these two sides. I go looking for bold work with commissions, without detracting from requirements of clients. I think the best illustrators are those who are able to transfer the most authentic parts of themselves to commercial commissions. That is where I want to go.”

Owen Pritchard — 26 July 2017
Work / Illustration Julia Petrova conveys mystery and darkness in her landscape illustrations

Moscow-based illustrator Julia Petrova uses watercolour, ink and liner for her finely-detailed drawings and each one takes around one or two days to complete. There’s a gloomy and mysterious atmosphere to Julia’s landscape-based illustrations and while she depicts buildings, cars and other human-made structures, there’s a distinct absence of people in her work. When humans do appear, it’s just the back of someone or a dangling hand, and this only adds to the intrigue surrounding Julia’s drawings, which capture moments just before or after something has happened.

Rebecca Fulleylove — 24 July 2017
Work / Illustration Peter Judson messes with depth perception in new personal project, Infection

Illustrator and designer Peter Judson has become widely known for his vivid isometric room depictions – too well known, in his opinion. “I’ve been asked time and time again to reinvent these environments for various clients to a point where it was becoming pretty repetitive and dull,” he says. In an attempt to spice up the work that’s become his signature, Peter has been literally taking them apart just to put them back together in inventive new ways.

Jenny Brewer — 21 July 2017