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An illustration of a person from behind, wearing round glasses and a yellow shirt, looking down a city street. The scene is rendered in a loose, sketchy style with vibrant colours and a tall tower in the distance.

Illustration: Yann Kebbi is back with more exxxcellent illustration

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Date
9 September 2013

Yann Kebbi first caught our eye with his beautiful illustrations which, in spite of their general “niceness” on first glance, reveal a sinister undertone the more you look at them. He’s still employing this technique to marvellous effect. In his series of illustrations for review Dorade, based on author Viken Berberian’s novel Das Kapital: A Novel of Love and Money Markets, Yann has taken a step away from the more polished images we used to associate with him, instead favouring the rapid movement and urban chaos imbued with his rough, vivid, endlessly dynamic line work.

Whether he’s trying to get talented fingers in as many pies as possible or proving his prowess in a whole bunch of different styles, we can’t help but admire the breadth of his skill; at this rate he’ll have conquered the world of illustration before we even have time to catch up with him.

An illustration of a bustling city street with distorted perspectives and sketchy lines. In the foreground, a person with glasses and a bow tie reclines, holding a book.
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Yann Kebbi: Dorade No. 5

An illustration of a chaotic, brightly coloured interior with a vaulted glass ceiling. Stylised figures are scattered across the space, some floating or reclining, amidst floating dark spheres and sharp geometric lines.
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Yann Kebbi: Dorade No. 5

An illustration of a sprawling, colourful city viewed from a high balcony. In the foreground, a person sits at a desk sketching, while another figure looks out over the dense urban landscape towards distant mountains.
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Yann Kebbi: Dorade No. 5

An illustration of a chaotic, crowded room filled with sketchy figures and architectural fragments. A person in a suit is thrown backwards by a large red sphere, while a sign in the background reads “The Future is Here, It’s Just Not Equally Distributed.”
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Yann Kebbi: Dorade No. 5

An illustration of a person in a suit speaking at a podium, holding a piece of paper. They are surrounded by a crowd of stylised, colourful figures in a hall featuring a sign that reads “IN GOD WE TRUST”.
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Yann Kebbi: Untitled

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Maisie Skidmore

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Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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