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An illustration of a person reclining in a red, curved chair being pulled by a large, dark bird. The bird resembles an ostrich and strides across a yellow landscape under a pale sky.

French illustration duo Icinori have just published a heap of new work

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Date
10 March 2015

French duo Mayumi Otero and Raphael Urwiller are a couple united by their unbridled love for print. When their visual arts/illustrative forces are brought together they go by the name of Icinori, and create some of the most beautifully considered, traditional publications, pamphlets, concertina books and posters around. Considering the staggering detail present in every single image they piece together and print, it’s shocking how much new work they’ve just whacked up on their site.

Where before they were drawing inspiration from ancient visuals and historic illustration, the pair are now exploring more modern details and aesthetics. Take their Oscars illustration for Trois Couleurs magazine, or the trippy Jacco Gardner poster for instance. This new work is straying further and further away from children’s book illustration and showing the world that they are the guys who can attack pretty much any brief that gets handed to them.

An illustration of a surreal landscape in orange, purple and cream. A person in a boat floats through a forest of tall, orange trees, while another figure sits below them in a rocky cavern.
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Icinori: Correspondences

An illustration of four figures standing on a jagged, icy peak, lifting a glowing globe together. The scene is set against a dark, starry sky with a teal and yellow colour palette.
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Icinori: Elle Tourne: Children’s book by Mayumi Otero

An illustration of three dark, silhouetted figures interacting with a red ladder in a yellow room. The figures are positioned at odd angles, with one hanging upside down and another balancing a cube.
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Icinori: Untitled

A surreal collage featuring two orange faces facing each other, separated by floating turquoise islands. Small figures climb ladders between the islands, carrying letters that spell “together”.
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Icinori: Untitled

An illustration for a poster featuring a stylised portrait in red, purple and cream. The figure wears a dark beanie and has a fragmented, layered face. Text at the bottom reads “jacco gardner” above event details for “Lundi 8 Avril 2013” at “Troc’afé” in Strasbourg. The words “Panimix DJ-Set” appear in the bottom right corner.
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Icinori: Panimix

An open book shows a teal title page and a full-page illustration. The text reads “Enquête Massacre Mémoire Justice au Guatemala” by Sebastian Rotella. Opposite, an illustration depicts a group of figures in red uniforms moving through a dense, blue-toned jungle.
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Icinori: Long Cours 06

An illustration of a surreal landscape viewed through a series of teal arches. In the foreground, a person in a blue suit and hat clings to a red horse that is sinking into a pool of water. A white rectangular block in the centre reads “MAYUMI OTERO”.
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Icinori: Gucci Masters

An illustration of four figures in a surreal, red-toned landscape. One person climbs a jagged mountain, another floats in the sky with a blue flower for a head, and two others crouch by a blue river and waterfall.
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Icinori: Elle Tourne: Children’s book by Mayumi Otero

An illustration of four figures with surreal, geometric heads floating and crouching across a red, mountainous landscape. A winding river flows through the valley towards a smoking volcano in the distance.
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Icinori: Elle Tourne: Children’s book by Mayumi Otero

An illustration of a giant, golden Oscar statue under construction on a scaffolding site. Small figures work on the figure, with one welding the statue’s eye and another lowering an arm into place with a crane.
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Icinori: Untitled

An illustration of a person reclining in a red chair, which is pulled by a large black ostrich. The person holds a red fishing rod with a yellow weight dangling in front of the bird.
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Icinori: La Maison Est Le Carton

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Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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