Pow! Enjoy some mad old illustration from Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez

Date
19 April 2013

Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez is an illustrator of some remarkable skill residing in the Maryland region of the USA – Baltimore to be exact. With pastel shades and complex, linear constructions of sprawling cities and jolly characters he’s slowly but surely garnering a reputation for himself, winning commissions for the likes of Esquire and The Believer. Our favourite piece of his work explores the genesis of New York City’s grid system which surely earns him a prize for simultaneously making the subject of US urban planning interesting and giving characters in period costume beaks for literally no explicable reason. Bravo!

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Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez: Community Center

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Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez: The Arsenal of Exclusion/Inclusion

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Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez: America

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Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez: NYC Grid Founders

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Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez: NYC Grid Founders

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Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez: NYC Grid Founders

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About the Author

James Cartwright

James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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