Editorial illustrator Alessandro Apai turns the "cheeky" up a notch

In my opinion, Alessandro Apai’s work ticks all the boxes editorial illustration should – it’s smart, it compresses often complex ideas down into easy-to-digest images and it’s really, really funny. Born in Italy but currently based in Barcelona, the illustrator seems to have kept his pencil firmly on paper over the months that have passed since we last checked in with him in September. His Tumblr is a delightful mishmash of work, from the roughly sketched out to the carefully refined. There’s a friendly nod to the work of Jan Buchczik and the prolific Jean Jullien in there as well, which suggest great things might be on the horizon for Alessandro, too.