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More cut out-like editorial illustrations from Anna Kövecses

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Date
4 April 2016

Anna Kövecses’ editorial illustrations continually buck tradition by focusing on organic cut out-like shapes of objects and figures rather trying to outline and contain them. With commissions from The Guardian, Creative Review and Neon magazine, Anna’s latest work is just as minimal and friendly as last time we featured her.

Mainly character-based, the Hungarian illustrator’s work plays with typography to make faces, as well as looser forms that are placed together in more abstract creations. Her use of colour is wonderful, with a mix of milky tones and warm shades giving Anna’s naive style elegance.

An illustration of a large, stylised eye with an orange iris and dark pupil against a purple background. Below it, a blue smartphone lies flat on a peach-coloured surface.
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Anna Kövecses: FiveThirtyEight

An illustration of a person holding a blue rectangular object in front of their face. The object features the word “nothing” spelled out in scattered, lowercase letters.
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Anna Kövecses: Creative Review

An illustration of a stylised figure with a beige head and a yellow body. The letters “n”, “t”, “h”, “n” and “g” are scattered across their face to spell “nothing”.
An illustration of a stylised face composed of flat, organic shapes in muted tones. The figure has orange hair, a yellow nose, and mismatched green and blue eyes.
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Anna Kövecses: The Guardian

An abstract illustration of organic, colourful shapes on a pale cream background. The composition features soft, rounded forms in shades of pink, orange, green and blue.
An illustration of a person with multiple arms, multitasking in a minimalist style. They hold a smartphone, a blue cup of coffee, a white piece of paper and a potted cactus.
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Anna Kövecses: Neon magazine

An illustration of a person wearing dark swimwear floating in blue water with cream-coloured ripples. On a sandy shore below, a yellow mirror, a dark phone and a pink limb are scattered.
An illustration of a hand holding a cream-coloured shopping bag filled with groceries. Inside the bag are a bottle of wine, a baguette, grapes, a mushroom and other food items.
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Anna Kövecses: Lienz

An illustration of a person from a top-down perspective, their head represented by a large dark brown circle. They hold a piping bag, decorating a gingerbread house on a pink background.
An illustration of a person holding two rectangular cards that obscure their face. The cards and the background contain the letters “n”, “o”, “t”, “h”, “i”, “n”, “g”, spelling the word “nothing”.
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Anna Kövecses: Creative Review

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About the Author

Rebecca Fulleylove

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Rebecca Fulleylove is a freelance writer and editor specialising in art, design and culture. She is also senior writer at Creative Review, having previously worked at Elephant, Google Arts & Culture, and It’s Nice That.

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