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To create a recent portrait of Amy Winehouse, artist Liz Lomax employed drawing, sculpting, painting, powdering, set design, lighting and photography.  And Brillo pads.

How can you resist Valeria Petrone’s adorable blue speckled version??  And if you’re in Vicenza Italy this month, the Museo Civico di Bassano del Grappa has all 50 on display.

Marie Antoinette never said her infamous line ‘Let them eat cake.’ Think Anne Boleyn had six fingers? One of her biographers said she had ‘an extra nail.’ A nail isn’t a finger. There’s more, much more.

Distiller William Grant & Sons commissioned artist Jonathan Williams to help build an identity for this new triple malt whiskey.

Out of nearly 4,000 illustration entries, 3×3 Magazine has finally narrowed it down to the top 200 illustrations to be exhibited in their 5th annual competition.

6 tales from UK’s Peculiar Crimes Unit. ‘The Victoria Vanishes‘, the first one, is out now in hardback.

Typeface designer Mark Simonson created ‘Felt Tip Woman‘ based on the handwriting of graphic designer Patricia Thompson. Here’s how that font got its quirky name.

The combination of Jack Molloy’s illustration and Elvis Swift’s lettering proved positively intoxicating at a recent awards show.

It’s the annual that sets the industry standard.  Gorgeous artwork from Anna & Elena Balbusso, Daniel Bejar, Chris Buzelli, Harry Campbell, many more.

“This was a difficult project for me,” says artist Alan Witschonke, “because I challenged myself to develop a new style specifically for this book, based on the art of the Mughal Empire.”

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