DON'T WALK AWAY, RENE
Today, kittens, we are going to talk about the most recognizable fashion illustrator you've never heard of. Does this look familiar? How about this? Or this? They're three of the most famous--though in my opinion, hardly the best--works of the game-changing artist, Rene Gruau. The son of an Italian count and a French aristocrat, he was only 14 when his first piece was published in an Italy; by the age of 18, he was appearing in fashion bibles the world over. It wasn't long be
A SHORT TRIP
If the sound outside my office window is to be believed, civilization is built by jackhammers. It is, in a word, noisy as fuck out there. Fortunately for me, I have large headphones and colleagues who know where all the cool stuff on the internet is kept. One such thing is this gorgeous, interactive illustration by Australian technical artist, Alexander Perrin. The premise is simple: use your arrow keys to ferry a load of fez-sporting cats from station to station in your beau
