May/June 2020

Illustration Annual | 61

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Interactive

Huncwot

Fluent in back-end development and interactive design, a creative agency in Warsaw enlivens static layouts.

Advertising

Kamp Grizzly

An ad agency in Portland, Oregon, keeps campaigns fresh and relevant by exploring culture at its source.

Photography

CROSSLUCID

This Berlin-based duo follows its collaborative, free-flowing process across photography, character design and more.

Design

Gretel

This New York design firm turns the bedrock of each brand into a foundation for growth.

Exhibit

Turner Classic Movies animations

The charming, tactile animations for TCM’s interstitial program on Julie Andrews calls us to explore this screen legend’s Hollywood years.

Boulder Guide Book

This amusing, yet handy pocket guide not only introduces Boulder, Colorado to tourists, but also is the first to use algae offset ink.

2019 Southeast Asian Games illustrations

Dynamic patterns and a bright palette of rainbow colors come together in the illustrations for the 2019 Southeast Asian Games.

Cirilo packaging

Classic engravings and detailed illustrations come together in the new packaging for beer brand Cirilo.

National Trust short film

Animated typography and calming nature flow together in a short film that celebrates the National Trust’s 125th anniversary.

Woodker packaging

Fresh and tactile, the packaging for this vodka brand embraces its connection to Poland’s lush forests.

ProFi identity

Classic engravings meet contemporary color palettes in the identity for this financial company.

Pantone print ads

These print ads invite everyone to use Pantone’s colors as a way to create their own worlds.

Nissan “Personal Space” print ads

These print ads encapsulate a quintessential trait that both Nissans and Finish people have: safety distance as a standard feature.

National Public Radio posters

The typographically experimental posters for NPR reveals this famed radio station’s statistics in a contemporary way.

Fresh

Design

Simoul Alva

This Mountain View, California–based designer infuses her work with bold shapes and intricate details.

Illustration

Ilya Milstein

This self-taught New York–based illustrator conveys the human world with a ligne claire–inspired style.

Photography

Gabriel Nivera

This Los Angeles–based photographer creates natural photographs that foster strong connections between the subjects and the viewers.

Columns

Design Culture

Words That Color Me Beautiful

Seeking to broaden her artistic vocabulary, Wendy Richmond delves into the language of color.

Advertising

Would You Listen To Nickelback If It Made You More Creative?

Upend your routine, and you may just grow a few creative brain cells, Ernie Schenck writes.

Design Issues

Advertising About People

Michael Coyne asks how purpose-led advertising can achieve better engagement and results.

Education

Continuing Typographic Education for Professionals

Angela Riechers points professional designers to programs for continuing their type education.

Typography

Fontocalypse Now?

Do the trends in the type world spell a fontocalypse? Thomas Phinney investigates.

Favorites / Illustration

Five Illustrators Share Their Treasured Finds

Joana Avillez, Julian Callos, Carlín Díaz, Lisk Feng, and Rachell Sumpter share what keeps them inspired.

Book Reviews

Madness in Crowds

Authors Denis Kitchen and Violet Kitchen’s illustrated biography features meditations on the famed cartoonist’s style and work, problematic elements and all.

Malika Favre

The illustrator’s first monograph showcases the best of her vector illustrations in a generously large format.

Austin Briggs

In his examination of this comic book artist and advertising illustrator’s work, David Apatoff uncovers an artist with strong senses of humor, adventure and humanism.

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