Roberto Mollá: Tamatori

Artist Roberto Mollá's new work explores the famous Japanese myth of a princess' underwater adventure

Spanish artist Roberto Mollá‘s latest work, a series of 15 compositions taking up the famous Japanese tale of pearl diver Princess Tamatori (showing at the upcoming Pulse art fair in NYC), puts the artist in the well-populated ranks of other cultural interpreters of the story. Compared to Hokusai’s explicit illustration of the fabled sexual encounter between girl and octopus and more recent examples in manga, …

Hybrid Novels

Graphic designer Alberto Hernandez's imaginative recreation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

With a goal of finding a new way for readers to delve into the story of a book, Spanish graphic designer Alberto Hernandez used “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” to create the amazingly intricate Hybrid Novels for his master’s degree project. Noticing that most novels come without images, Hernandez took to the task of re-imagining the classic by incorporating illustration, photos …

Lehel Kovács: Google Street View Illustrations

A Hungarian designer uses Google Streetview to illustrate an alphabet of whimsical cityscapes

> What happens when when the ABCs meet Google Map’s street views? Using the online superpower’s vast database of photography, Budapest-based designer Lehel Kovács illustrates a partial alphabet of locations such as Florence, Indianapolis and Ostrava in a series of vignettes. Kovács’ whimsically simple style strips each picture down to near outline form, strategically coloring them to highlight each place’s main attraction. With a degree …