The Illustrator: 100 Best from Around the World

I thought this would be a nice little coffee table book with photos and maybe some captions. The cover looks a little underwhelming and so I thought it would be a marginal text at best. Boy was I wrong.It's hardcover and the binding is solid. This is a full-on encyclopedia. There are 661 pages!!! A satin bookmark is sewn in the binding so that there is no need to dog-ear pages. The descriptions and illustrator bios are lovely. The pictures are of varying sizes. Some of the illustrations are a two-page spread that bleeds over the gutter so there is no interruption of the image. There is a wonderful balanced diverse selection of illustrators. It really is an international representation of illustrators. The final pages of the book give several addition Kadir Nelson pics. I love this book.

I saw the great reviews for this book but to me it does not live up to it’s description as the top 100 illustrators from around the world. It is very white US centric with sprinklings of Northern Europeans as you would imagine from a German house.This seems old fashioned and out of touch and does not cover South America, Africa, Asia, Australasia. There must be amazing creatives unseen. In this book There are two black artists. Only One based in Africa. One Asian artist based in Japan. This Is just not interesting and shame on Taschen’s editors producing such a one dimensional book. Seems out of touch.

Des styles et techniques très variés et extrêmes. Des illustrations aux dessins, aux conceptions et aux messages magnifiques opposées à d`autres discutables. Cinq étoiles pour les dimensions des illustrations pour les informations en trois langues et certains géniaux dessinateurs comme Maya Beus, Ethem Onur, Steve Brodner, Marc Burckhardt, Sue Coe, Custom by Sophy, Joe Fenton, Lennart Gäbel, Jody Hewgill, Brad Holland, Audrey Kawasaki, Adonna Khare, Eduardo Kobra, Anita Kunz, Laura Laine, Tara McPherson, Kadir Nelson, Victo Ngai, Christoph Niemann, Robert Nippoldt, Eiko Ojala, Edel Rodriguez, Yuko Shimizu, Armando Veve sont mes favoris pour le contenu et la grande qualité du dessin illustré. Dans ce livre il y a de nombreuses techniques intéressantes. Trois étoiles pour la petitesse des caractères pour la présentation des artistes et pour le choix libertaire de certains artistes. Ce livres nous livre une découverte impressionnante sur de nombreux artistes mondiaux.

If you are painter / illustrator or designer you might pick up out of this book a loaf of inspirations ! I love it and it took a place in my design-book-collection! Great quality of book and it's design. I am fan of TASCHEN production. They always make something delightful 😊

Muy actualizado y está bueno que haya una breve descripción de la biografía, no tan largo.

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