Satan (1833).
I always enjoy it when a search for a piece of information about an artist leads to works you hadn’t come across before. Today it was a quest for the identity of the Satan statue above, created, as it turns out, by French sculptor Jean-Jacques Feuchère (1807–1852). The Louvre site has another view of [...]
There’s nothing new about drawing attention to the viral nature of design, whether in the repeated use of motifs and styles or the way in which typefaces breed and proliferate; Jonathan Barnbrook alludes to this process directly by calling his font house Virus.
The plate above comes from a Victorian book I bought several years ago, [...]
A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart, cataloguing interests, obsessions and passing enthusiasms.
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• Recent work: a continually updated list of what John’s been working on.
• Writings: a selection of John’s published writings here and elsewhere.
JOHN COULTHART’s first illustration work was for the Hawkwind album [...]
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