I’m completely captivated by the work of French illustrator Virgnie Morgand. Even when viewed on the screen her work has a wonderfully nostalgic feeling, like crude color printing on newsprint.
Lots of contemporary illustrators achieve a similar look by adding digitally faked streaks, spots and mis-registration of color fields—techniques which while effective can come across as superficial. Morgand does do a little of that, but the warmth in her work is less contingent on shallowly recreating analog visual tropes than it is a product of her judicious use of restrained color palettes, a line quality that is at once casually expressive and precisely graphic, and a textile designer-like understanding of visual patterns. It’s also distinctly European, if not singularly French.
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