illustrator

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“I wasn’t the best illustrator, and I remember the professor told me that half of illustrations are ideas. That was inspiring.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Portland, Ore.-based Emek was already dubbed “The Thinking Man’s Poster Artist” by punk icon Henry Rollins years before he became Coachella’s resident illustrator in 2007.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

It changed Aubrey Beardsley, the illustrator and author who was a major figure of the Decadents, a group of artists and writers in the 1890s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

After a spell as a press photographer, he studied at the Royal College of Art and began a successful career as a book illustrator.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

There is a pen-and-ink drawing on page eleven by her father, an illustrator for the magazine: a view of the North Calcutta skyline sketched from the roof of their flat one foggy January morning.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri