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An illustration of a child in a blue shirt building with blue and grey plastic bricks. In the background, a toy car sits on a shelf next to a drawing of the Eiffel Tower.

Illustration: Check out Israeli illustrator Ellakookoo's new style - wow!

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Liv Siddall
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Date
16 September 2013

It’s forever a mystery to me why so many illustrators keep their best work for their Flickr pages only, it seems to me like wearing your best clothes to the darkness of the cinema. Perhaps, though, it’s because Flickr is still both the black market and the Roman forum of illustration, the place where illustrators trade their real wares rather than just official webpage fodder they have been forced to make for clients. To me, Israeli illustrator Ellakookoo is a classic example of this. One look at her official website suggests a slightly twee illustrator with an apt “kooky” nature. A deeper delve into her Flickr account however, paints a totally different picture: one of true talent, wit and satire and a style that is developing impossibly quickly into a true pillar of the illustration world.

An illustration for a poster on a red background. A profile of a person’s head is open at the top like a container, with a monkey in a sailor's hat, a robot, and a blue figure in a hat emerging from within. Hebrew text appears at the top and bottom, with “Eilakookoo 2013” written vertically along the left edge.
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Ellakookoo: Untitled

An illustration of two people and a dog. The people have yellow hair and wear formal attire, while the dog wears a black top hat and bow tie.
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Ellakookoo: Illustration for the “Mind and Matter” column by Alison Gopnik in the Wall street Journal,

An illustration of a person with long blue hair riding a blue bicycle past a red brick wall. A small grey dog leaps up behind them, while the face of a person in a hat looks on from the foreground.
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Ellakookoo: Illustrations for Einayim (Israeli children’s magazine), for their BRAIN issue. The article is about long term and short term memory, and the different ways we use it.

An illustration of a person in a tuxedo sitting on a park bench, looking distressed. Three black birds surround them, with one perched on a platter held aloft and another landing nearby.
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Ellakookoo: “The end of room service” For the New York times opinion section

An illustration on a red background featuring four people and various objects. A person smokes a cigarette while others lounge, one listening to music and another holding a bottle. A blue bus, a bottle of wine and a mug reading “I ❤️ TA” are scattered around the figures.
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Ellakookoo: For I Heart Magazine

An illustration of a colourful, isometric city scene with people lounging in windows and on balconies. Large yellow text in the centre reads “THIS PAGE CANNOT BE FOUND”.
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Ellakookoo: Cover for Upcoming issue of EIGHT magazine

A black and white comic strip showing a series of panels depicting a domestic argument. A person holds up two different dresses, asking another person for their opinion on which to wear to an “appreciation ceremony”.
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Ellakookoo: A part of my “songstress of wars” comics for the POWER issue of SCRAWL magazine

An illustration of a child in a yellow T-shirt playing with toys on a red floor. Behind them, a large, smiling clown figure holds up a ring.
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Ellakookoo: Untitled

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www.flickr.com/ellakookoo
www.ellakookoo.com

About the Author

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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