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An illustration of a performer in a black suit and hat on stage, facing a dense crowd. The people hold up smartphones to record the performance, while a person with a guide dog sits to the side.

Typically amazing updates from one of our favourite illustrators, Brecht Vandenbroucke

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Date
28 February 2013

Finding out Brecht had uploaded more work on to his Flickr was the internet equivalent of finding out there’s extra gravy and potatoes after a Sunday dinner. I don’t think any other artist or illustrator anywhere churns out as many crazily detailed pictures as Brecht, each one seemingly getting weirder and weirder.

Some of his latest include a scientist being chased Jurassic Park-style around a lab by enormous flies, a slightly alarming image of a queue for a cash machine being invaded by homeless men (we’ve all been there) and a truly, truly fantastic picture of a festival crowd and a guide dog for the blind. We don’t know what White Cube is, but let’s hope it’s an exciting new project that we get to see very soon.

An illustration of a laboratory where a person in a white coat cringes on the floor. They are surrounded by several giant mosquitoes, one of which looms directly over them.
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Brecht Vandenbroucke: When Mutant Mosquitoes Attack

An illustration of a long queue of people waiting at a “CASH” machine. As they reach the front, they transition from standing to kneeling in prayer, each with a small black bowl before them.
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Brecht Vandenbroucke: Cash

An illustration of a zoo where animals are kept in enclosures featuring “YouTube” screens. Visitors walk through the grounds, many of them looking at their own handheld devices.
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Brecht Vandenbroucke: Day the earth stood still

An illustration of several surreal, multi-limbed figures in a lush green landscape. A large speech bubble at the top contains the words “BEEP BEEP” in a 3D digital font.
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Brecht Vandenbroucke: BEEP BEEP

An illustration for a book cover titled “White Cube” by Brecht Vandenbroucke. Two figures in blue outfits are surrounded by a chaotic, colourful collage of floating shapes, a giant red thumb and smaller figures.
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Brecht Vandenbroucke: White Cube

A comic strip in four rows of three panels. A group of purple figures in blue shirts watch a person in a black suit look at a painting. In the final panels, a person in a red dress and black hat steps out of the frame and walks away.
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Brecht Vandenbroucke: White Cube

A surreal illustration featuring a chaotic landscape of distorted figures and objects. A large dog dominates the centre, surrounded by a skeletal figure, a black animal mask and a person in a yellow outfit.
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Brecht Vandenbroucke: ERROR 404

An illustration of a surreal, divided landscape showing the effects of climate change. On one side, a person relaxes in a hammock by a fan and cactus, while on the other, a melting snowman stands beside a radiator. A sign in the background reads “GLOBAL FASHION” above images of underwear.
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Brecht Vandenbroucke: Comfortable

A comic strip featuring pink-skinned figures in a surreal narrative. The panels show characters visiting a “Prosthes Shop” and fitting prosthetic limbs.
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Brecht Vandenbroucke: Shoes

An illustration of a musician on stage performing for a dense crowd. Every person in the audience holds up a smartphone to record the performance.
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Brecht Vandenbroucke: Music

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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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