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An illustration of a winding blue road cutting through a landscape of rolling red hills. A small horse walks along the road in the foreground, while a windmill sits atop a distant peak.

We're liking Malika Favre's atmospheric images of Fuerteventura

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Date
1 October 2014

The London-based French illustrator Malika Favre has had another big year, adding even more breadth to her already impressive portfolio of work. In the summer she was invited to Tenerife by a Spanish design collective called 28ymedio to take part in its Illustrated Journey project, which aims to “help fight the economic crisis in Spain by promoting the Canary Islands and bringing a new stream of tourism.”

“There were basically no constraints, no brief, no client but the island itself,” Malika told us. “I found some really interesting similarities between shapes of water, road, sand and mountains and decided to use a single direction for all the illustration so they almost follow the same light going from the bottom left into the picture.

“I decided that each image would contain a living element, a natural element as well as an element of wind and created a series of six illustrations sharing the same muted palette to best reflect the atmosphere of my journey.”

An illustration of a white modernist building under a bright blue sky. A palm frond frames the top left, while a white cloth hangs from a clothesline across a balcony.
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Malika Favre: Illustrated Journey – Fuerteventura

An illustration of a small figure carrying a surfboard across a vast, winding white path. The path cuts through deep red sand dunes under a clear blue sky with a few distant birds.
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Malika Favre: Illustrated Journey – Fuerteventura

An illustration of a small blue and white boat moored to a concrete pier. A single bird perches on the boat’s edge against a backdrop of deep purple and coral pink water.
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Malika Favre: Illustrated Journey – Fuerteventura

An illustration of a white stone tower with a red tiled roof under a clear blue sky. A smaller building with a terracotta roof and a circular window sits in the foreground.
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Malika Favre: Illustrated Journey – Fuerteventura

An illustration of a person in a blue and white striped swimsuit walking along a pale beach. Deep purple shadows stretch across the sand, leading towards a distant coastline with white buildings under a clear blue sky.
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Malika Favre: Illustrated Journey – Fuerteventura

An illustration of a winding blue road cutting through a landscape of rolling brown hills. A small dog stands in the middle of the road, while a figure stands atop a distant peak.
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Malika Favre: Illustrated Journey – Fuerteventura

A travel poster for “Fuerte Ventura” featuring a grid of six minimalist illustrations. The scenes depict sun-drenched landscapes, including a white building, a winding road through red hills, a boat by a pier, and a church.
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Malika Favre: Illustrated Journey – Fuerteventura

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Rob Alderson

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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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