Illustration & Art

Preezy’s Pixel-Art UI Turns Loyalty Challenges Into a Clear, Playful Progression GamerG’s Preezy app pairs prize-linked challenges with pixel-art screens and avatar items, balancing clear progress trac... UX & UI Design Jul 22, 2026 A-174

Sara Tyson’s Symbolic Illustrations Bring Under the Volcano to Suntup Editions Sara Tyson uses geometric forms, earthy colours and tactile textures to interpret the psychological tension in Malcolm L... UX & UI Design Jul 17, 2026 A-76

Important, Not Important’s Illustration System Grows from Icons to Editorial Scenes A restrained palette, 1.5–3px outlines and reusable mini-worlds give Important, Not Important a visual language built fo... Graphic Design Jul 17, 2026 A-175

Sophie Escavy Lim Turns the Science of Sound into Vivid Illustration For A Symphony of Sound, Sophie Escavy Lim gives sound’s hidden physics a bold visual language, pairing vivid illustrati... Graphic Design Jul 14, 2026 A-77

Anna Godeassi Illustrates Everyday Joy in Jumping into Puddles Anna Godeassi turns culturally specific words for happiness into warm, vivid illustrations for Jumping into Puddles, a b... UX & UI Design Jul 09, 2026 A-78

Nine Astronomy Photographer of the Year Shortlist Images Span Auroras, Nebulae and Moonrise From a comet above the Alps to a supermoon over Paris, the 2026 shortlist pairs distant celestial subjects with striking... UX & UI Design Jul 06, 2026 A-200

Lucy Truman’s Venice Sketchbook Turns Canal Light into Illustration UK illustrator Lucy Truman builds a quiet portrait of Venice from reflected light, loose observational drawing and scene... UX & UI Design Jun 26, 2026 A-79

Dango Adapt Case for iPhone 17 Pro Pairs a Slim Silicone Shell With a Metal Bumper Dango’s modular iPhone 17 Pro case shifts between a low-profile silicone shell and a more structured metal-edged form. UX & UI Design Jun 15, 2026 A-163

Ivan Ehlers Builds Editorial Cartoons from Research, Pencil Sketches and Digital Drawing Cartoonist Ivan Ehlers discusses his route from construction work to illustration, his research and drawing process, and... Graphic Design Jun 12, 2026 A-47

The Story of Ferdinand at 90: Robert Lawson’s Linework and a Bull Who Would Rather Sit A museum exhibition revisits Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s picture book, where quiet humor, precise ink drawings and a... Graphic Design May 26, 2026 A-48

Guy Billout’s Quiet Catastrophes Bring Geometric Illustration to the Gallery A solo exhibition at Philippe Labaune Gallery revisits Guy Billout’s precise, quietly comic approach to surreal illustra... Graphic Design May 18, 2026 A-49

Gerald Scarfe’s Hercules Design: From Early Approaches to Animation Approval Hercules was the last character design approved for animation. Gerald Scarfe and the narrator worked through alternative... Graphic Design May 16, 2026 A-11

Why Strong UI Starts With Product Function, Research and Information Architecture Windows 8, Apple’s AI summaries and Twitter’s rebrand show how polished interfaces can miss user needs. A practical disc... Graphic Design May 13, 2026 A-178

NestEgg Health Uses Personal Targets and Team Progress to Reframe Workplace Wellness NestEgg Health pairs individual goals with team challenges, using high contrast cards and shared design patterns to make... Graphic Design May 12, 2026 A-179

Walt Peregoy and Al Dempster’s Different Background Visions for The Jungle Book Walt Disney wanted a more restrained, realistic palette for The Jungle Book, prompting a change from Walt Peregoy’s abst... Graphic Design May 10, 2026 A-12

D.B. Dowd Traces Illustration Through Five Centuries of Reading and Visual Culture In *Reading Pictures*, D.B. Dowd connects illustration to literacy, publishing and cultural history, from printed books... Graphic Design May 07, 2026 A-50

Todd Radom’s The Ballpark and Beyond Turns Baseball History Into a Visual Book Designer Todd Radom brings baseball’s varied ballparks, uniforms and stories together in an illustrated book shaped as n... Graphic Design May 06, 2026 A-51

Balbusso Twins Bring Classical Research and Painterly Illustration to New York Anna and Elena Balbusso discuss their shared process, classical influences and belief that beauty can bring viewers clos... Graphic Design May 05, 2026 A-52

Joe Rinaldi’s Ichabod Crane Story Sketches Put Character Acting First Joe Rinaldi’s sketches gave Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston character attitudes and interactions to build on, showing ho... UX & UI Design Apr 29, 2026 A-13

Aubrey Hirsch Uses Comics, Research and Humor to Examine Womanhood At PRINT Book Club, Aubrey Hirsch discussed how comics combine words, images and data to make debates about women’s live... Graphic Design Apr 26, 2026 A-53