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Nina Chakrabarti

Illustrator Nina Chakrabarti for the magazine I Want You.

I just re-discovered Katie Turner's work, and I really like it. She's a senior at Parsons and I can totally see The New Yorker hiring her regularly as soon as she hits the pavement. She recently did her first Op-Ed for the New York Times (link). I especially like this boyfriend criteria series. Not only do we have similar tastes in guys, the subway, tattoo, and bike illos are making me very nostalgic for NYC.

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Obssesive Consumption: Book Covers

Remember last year when I doted on Kate Bingham Burt's work? Well up 'til now her drawings were made into zines, but now it's in brand-new-book form. And it's real cool! Frank Chimero secretly organized a handful of illustrator friends to draw the cover, and gave them to her at her book release. Pretty sweet, huh?

See all of the covers here.

Obsessive Consumption
Kate Bingaman-Burt

Milton Glaser for Seventeen Magazine

I try not to collect too much paper ephemera, but I couldn't resist this 1967 Seventeen Magazine with Twiggy & a kitten on the cover. I got it for 50¢ at a garage sale a few months ago, but yesterday was the first time I really looked through it. Inspired by Tadanori Yokoo's work, I was considering cutting it up to make a collage until I saw these Milton Glaser illustrations.

Glaser is best known for his iconic Bob Dylan poster and the legendary I ♥ NY logo but he's created what seems like thousands of other illustrations, typefaces, album covers, book covers, etc. Hearing him speak is really inspirational.

Tadanori Yokoo

From wikipedia:

Tadanori Yokoo (born 1936) is one of Japan's most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists. His early work shows the influence of the New York based Push Pin Studio (Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast in particular) but Yokoo himself cites filmmaker Akira Kurosawa and writer Yukio Mishima as two of his most formative influences. In the late 1960s he became interested in mysticism and psychedelia, deepened by travels in India. Because his work was so attuned to 1960s pop culture, he has often been (unfairly) described as the "Japanese Andy Warhol" or likened to psychedelic poster artist Peter Max, but Yokoo's complex and multi-layered imagery is intensely autobiographical and entirely original.

(These scans are from the ever-inspiring blog "A Journey Round My Skull." I highly recommend taking a gander at his flickr page and blog for more illustration and graphic design sweetness.)

Also of note is the Two LP picture disc "Opera from the works of Tadanori Yokoo" by Toshi Ichiyanagi which Mutant Sound has made available, and describes as:

"...an unique amalgamated mixture of lysergic demented psychedelic assault-like stunt rock, a aural whirlwind filled with acid folk ramblings, tape collages, field recording excerpts, radio commercial snippets, roaring jet engines, electronic music excursions into the vast unexcavated canyons and dungeons of your mind, squealing sound fragments of frogs mating in a nearby pond, drowned out enka escapades, kayokyoku excursions into no mans land, Takakura Ken nasal singing, spoken word fragmentation bombs by Kara Juro amongst others, traffic noises, sonic sound clusters of blistering fuzzed out psychedelic mayhem, stratosphericstatic electronic hissing, radio news broadcast flashes, vintage electronic tape music escapades, chirping cricket orchestras in a distant backgroundand so much more non-adaptive and deranged sonic activity."

(Jordan, I'm going to recommend it to you without even giving it a listen.)

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photo of Tadanori Yokoo

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I can't gather much about this, but I love this too:
Tadanori Yokoo & Bohemians ビッグバンダナ TATOO FRONT & TATOO BACK

Irena Zablotska

If this Visa card was available in the U.S., it would be enough to get me to establish some credit.

Ukrainian illustrator Irena Zablotska does beautiful work on the computer, on canvas and in her notebooks. I love her colors, patterns, and characters. Get lost in her portfolio here.

Kate Bingaman-Burt

I love Kate Bingaman-Burt's work for some of the same reasons I like Martha Rich. It's simple and has a sense of humor, but is also meaningful. My favorite are her daily purchase drawings-simple pen and ink drawings of items that she's purchaced that day. I think it's unintentional, but she makes a statement about American consumerism. There's something about "tracing" your purchases that holds you accontable, and makes them more real.