Arthur Carvalho is a Brazilian freelance animator and illustrator, based in São Paulo, who creates hand-drawn, collage and digital animation and illustration for businesses and bands. Inspired by the world of skateboarding and rock and roll, as a teenager Arthur found an avenue for his love of drawing, creating fanzines and t-shirts for local skate shops. Now years later, his sketchbooks are filled with bizarre creatures, geometric patterns, skateboard adventures and blocky text, which he brings into his animation videos.
How do you evaluate excellence in illustration? How do you start understanding illustration’s place in the creative arts? Jaleen Grove, an art historian with a specialization in illustration studies and illustration history, looks at key ways we can assess illustration.
Judith Carnaby visits the the Kunstbibliothek’s fantastic major summer exhibition, AVANTGARDE!, currently showing at the Kulturforum Berlin.
An image is worth a thousand words. But who lies behind the image? An illustrator, naturally.
Check out the fascinating documentary by Marco Bassi and Andrea Chirichelli, with four talented and inspirational Italian illustrators: Emiliano Ponzi, Olimpia Zagnoli, Alessandro Gottardo, and Francesco Poroli.
Is a book still a book if it doesn’t have any words? In this article Anna Ridley takes a close look at wordless picture books and discovers there’s more than one way to tell a story.
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