Japanese illustrator Ryo Takemasa is adept at a vibrant, naïve aesthetic that recalls the warmth of mid-Century children’s book illustrations. There are a lot of illustrators who work in this idiom, but what sets Takemasa’s work apart, for me, are the pieces that display a wonderful mastery of exaggerated, deep perspective. In the examples below, you can see how his simplistic figurative shapes come alive when set within the artist’s surprisingly plausible, dimensional spaces—it reminds me a lot of Tin Tin creator Hergé’s virtuosic scenery renderings.

Many more examples of Takesama’s work at ryotakemasa.com. (Via It’s Nice That.)