Category Archives: illustration
london-hq-sunny
Here’s another cheery post-apocalyptic cityscape, in much the same vein as the New York image from a while back. This time, as you see, it’s London, and if you’re as visually pedantic as yr hmbl bloggr, you will notice that … more…
Plan59 :: Future Rocketship by Bohn, 1944
Revolutionary Rockets! | Bohn Aluminum & Brass, 1944 Plan59 has lots of mid-twentieth century techno-fantasy illustration along these lines. Looking over these pictures of beautiful streamlined rocket ships (like the cars and planes of the time), I wonder at what … more…
henna
These and a couple of other fine pairs of decorated hands appear to come from an ad campaign for Travel Corporation India, via BallaDora Typo-Grafika and FFFF. (I fear I’ve over-compressed the image here, a tad. BallaDora has fine copies.)
Hugh Ferriss
From Kosmograd’s photoset of architectural drawings by Hugh Ferriss (1889-1962), from the collection at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library. Ferriss was active (and successful) throughout the heyday of high Modernism, and his work inspired other architects and influenced … more…
Haeckel’s Problematical Phylogeny
I’ve had the beginnnings of this post hanging around backstage here since the early summer. Today, the handsome cephalopod illustration above showed up on FFFF, and so (in the absence of any compelling alternative) tonight, Ernst Haeckel, this is your … more…
Lohse, 1938, Zurich
Cover for a brochure for Escher-Wyss Zürich, designed by Richard Lohse 1938 ( via FFFFOUND!)
more tentacles
I haven’t discovered any information from the site this came from. The relevant information is displayed as an image, and there’s no alt text provided. (via FFFF again. I am thinking that perhaps I should be looking at setting up … more…
Threadless T-Shirts – That Way by Henrique Lima
Threadless T-Shirts – That Way by Henrique Lima Another of those pics, from the endless stream of them flowing before me, that happens to go with the decor around here. What are you gonna do? (via FFFF again)
Calligraphy by Mouneer El Shaarani ???? ???????
Calligraphy (#59), Mouneer El Shaarani???? ??????? Lots of really beautiful stuff here. There is no indication in the gallery pages of what anything actually says for those of us who don’t grok the script, and I almost don’t want to … more…
persistence of cephalopods
A few weeks ago, I ran across a bunch of pictures by visioluxus at DeviantArt, Of The Deep (nsfw) which featured a model tastefully draped with an octopus. I was reminded of, and was prompted to locate the Hokusai woodcut, … more…