Category: Illustrations

  • 40 Artists Illustrate The Concept of Anxiety for EYEYAH! Kids’ Magazine – COOL HUNTING®

    40 Artists Illustrate The Concept of Anxiety for EYEYAH! Kids’ Magazine – COOL HUNTING®

    [ad_1] For its sixth issue, Singapore-based kids’ magazine EYEYAH! asked an international array of digital artists and designers to illustrate what they believe the word “anxiety” looks and feels like, as well as ways to overcome it. The resulting 40 images offer numerous perspectives: some hopeful, others overwhelming, all colorful. EYEYAH! co-founders Tanya Wilson and […]

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  • Indoor Slippers – COOL HUNTING®

    Indoor Slippers – COOL HUNTING®

    [ad_1] FEIT + Oliver Jeffers $350 Made in adults’ and children’s sizes, these indoor slippers are part of a capsule collection by artisanal footwear and accessories brand FEIT and Northern Irish artist and author Oliver Jeffers. The super-soft leather slippers are crafted from a single piece vegetable-tanned calfskin and feature a natural latex-padded insole and […]

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  • Dana Kearley’s Artwork Explores and De-Stigmatizes Disability and Chronic Illness – COOL HUNTING®

    Dana Kearley’s Artwork Explores and De-Stigmatizes Disability and Chronic Illness – COOL HUNTING®

    [ad_1] Through her bright, cute and cheerful illustrations, Vancouver-based artist Dana Kearley explores and communicates the many nuanced ways that people exist and move through the world with disabilities and illness—de-stigmatizing it along the way. Her works often feature worms, snails and turtles, animals that “symbolize the way some of us move though the world, […]

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  • Non-Profit LIMBO Magazine Founder, Nick Chapin – COOL HUNTING®

    Non-Profit LIMBO Magazine Founder, Nick Chapin – COOL HUNTING®

    [ad_1] Born from a global pandemic, but perhaps even more from a dedication to the creative community, LIMBO magazine is a non-profit publication whose proceeds go to out-of-work artists, designers, illustrators, photographers, writers and other creatives. Founder and publisher Nick Chapin started the publication after finding himself at a loss for paid work. Rather than […]

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  • 20 Artists Contribute to Dropbox Paper’s Free “Indoors Zine” – COOL HUNTING®

    20 Artists Contribute to Dropbox Paper’s Free “Indoors Zine” – COOL HUNTING®

    [ad_1] It’s Nice That and Dropbox Paper fielded contributions from 20 illustrators, photographers and designers for a project they dubbed Indoors Zine, a collection “about the great indoors entirely made from home.” From lessons in meditation to illustrations of quarantine outfits, photographic illusions and sticker-inspired spreads, Indoors Zine provides entertainment and distraction—for readers and the […]

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  • Imaginative Maps of Life in Lockdown – COOL HUNTING®

    Imaginative Maps of Life in Lockdown – COOL HUNTING®

    [ad_1] CityLab asked its currently locked-down readers to map out their lives at home. Editors received 150+ intimate illustrations of apartment floor plans, neighborhood gems, routes for “sanity walks,” and even the sounds that surround us. While the results don’t reveal too much about architectural successes or design theories, they are an endearing and intimate […]

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  • Artist Sabrina Siegel’s Playful $10 Digital Portrait Series – COOL HUNTING®

    Artist Sabrina Siegel’s Playful $10 Digital Portrait Series – COOL HUNTING®

    [ad_1] Visits to galleries, art fairs and pop-ups used to serve as an introduction to new artists. Now, we are often left to our own devices—sometimes literally—as was the case when we stumbled upon Chicago-based artist Sabrina Siegel‘s Instagram page. A graphic designer and illustrator with experience in advertising and branding (and a degree in […]

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  • John Kerschbaum’s Epic, Illustrated Map of the Metropolitan Museum of Art – COOL HUNTING®

    John Kerschbaum’s Epic, Illustrated Map of the Metropolitan Museum of Art – COOL HUNTING®

    [ad_1] Commissioned in 2004 and published in 2007, artist John Kerschbaum’s captivating, hand-drawn Family Map weaves hundreds of artistic highlights into a complete floor plan of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In fact, Kerschbaum depicts every gallery in the institution on one single 18-by-24-inch page. He did so through combining hundreds of reference sketches made […]

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  • Link About It: This Week’s Picks

    Link About It: This Week’s Picks

    [ad_1] Radical housing concepts, a futuristic surf film, an endearing illustrated depiction of Wuhan and more Resources for Laid-off Bar + Restaurant Workers “A slew of programs, grants, and resources—from grassroots efforts to government relief—have begun to take shape” for those let go from bars, restaurants and other hospitality destinations, as Food and Wine reports in […]

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  • Garden Girls – COOL HUNTING

    Garden Girls – COOL HUNTING

    [ad_1] Topping out at 24 pages, Jo-Jo Sherrow’s Garden Girls is a zine about “the plant fairies who live amidst the green world.” The zine blends the mystical fairy tale world with our real life one, where our relationship with our environment has never been more crucial. Each page features a black-and-white illustration of one of […]

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  • Putinki + Tom of Finland Calendar

    Putinki + Tom of Finland Calendar

    [ad_1] Published by Putinki with the recognizable artwork of Tom of Finland, this 2020 calendar pairs a delightfully suggestive homoerotic illustration with each month. Printed in Finland, the calendar measures 33cm by 23cm and will ship in mid-December. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Tom of Finland Foundation, which works to […]

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