The application of his fanciful patterns and simple, classically inspired illustrations knew no boundaries, and his fertile imagination conjured up objects, clothing and furniture, including the iconic Trumeau-bar, a combination sideboard, bar and bureau, originally designed with the architect Gio Ponti and still in production today.
Over three years ago my never-ending encounters with Osama's ghost, and a Hollywood rendition of a comic superhero, inspired an illustration of a turbaned and bearded Captain America -- ready to fight intolerance.
From the horror movie typography on "Animal Farm" to the Vorticist-inspired illustration that Mr. Pearson commissioned from Paul Catherall for "Down and Out in Paris and London," each of the covers exhibits the wit, thoughtfulness and ingenuity that have come to distinguish his work.
Jades in archaic styles thereafter were often inspired by illustrations in catalogs rather than by a study of genuine antiques.
To music by Handel and poetry by John Milton, and inspired by illustrations by William Blake, Morris has created a detailed and endearingly quixotic hymn to humanism and enlightenment.
The Mexican Folk Art-Inspired Illustrations of Stacey Rozich.
The Mexican Folk Art-Inspired Illustrations of Stacey Rozich.
And illustrator Libby Vander Ploeg created an animated illustration inspired by Clinton's debate shimmy as a way of showing her support for the candidate.
Wound Man was inspired by an illustration in a Renaissance medical textbook Goode happened upon as a schoolboy.
Students then work alone or collaboratively to create an illustration inspired by the one by Mr. Niemann that they've been assigned.
Such, for instance, is a large, circular dish (British Museum) inscribed "Lyon, 1582," the overall decoration of which was obviously inspired by an illustration in Jean de Tournes's Bible, published in Lyon in 1554.
