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American illustration is not without legendary artists who influenced and defined their times and thereafter. When Brad Holland unexpectedly passed away in spring 2025, age 81, he was among the legends. He left a wealth of paintings, drawings, sketches and comic texts requiring months to rescue, preserve and organize (and the process continues). His family, friends, fans and connoisseurs discussed the necessity of a major memorial exhibition—but how could this be accomplished in a short amount of time? His former assistant and friend, illustrator Jonathan Twingley, organized an advisory committee, assumed the role of co-curator along with Stephanie Plunket and Tyson Skross. They are committed to mounting

Dolly understood the power of creating something tangible, creative, and lasting.

A new documentary short explores a summer camp's printing program.

This has been a terribly sad week. Now departed are individuals who have broadened the culture while making their individual marks. Of these, the passing of artist Yayoi Kusama at 97 hits closest to me. Although I only became aware of her art world reputation in the early 2000s, I knew her, so to speak, when she was a young audacious “happening” artist in New York during the late 60s.

A retrospective of iconic work by the English illustrator/designer will be mounted during the London Design Festival.

A tale of two covers.

This is one of my favorite stories about a legend of Italian design …

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Ron Cobb (1927–2020) was one of my generation’s most influential alternative political cartoonists. I was thinking about him the other day when I received an email from Ryan Standfest, founding editor of Rotland Press, publisher of “printed projects that mingle mordant amusement with enthusiastic despair.” He wrote about the plan for a bio-doc on Cobb’s life, which includes cartooning and film design of some of the most iconic sci-fi films, notably Back to the Future.

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