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Malika Favre's Bold Illustration
French illustrator Malika Favre works in flat colour and sharp light and shadow: minimal detail, maximum punch. Her portfolio includes New Yorker covers.
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Seb Lester's Calligraphy
Lettering artist Seb Lester films letters flowing from the pen: crisp strokes, gold leaf, flourishes. Soothing to watch, no language required.
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Tatsuya Tanaka's Miniature World
Japanese artist Tatsuya Tanaka has been staging tiny figures in everyday objects since 2011: broccoli becomes a forest, a stapler turns into a train.
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Shane Gross: life underwater
Canadian photographer Shane Gross captures marine and freshwater life: sharks, mangroves, tadpoles in a lake.
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Anton Thomas: hand-drawn maps
Artist Anton Thomas spends years drawing huge maps in pencil and pen, such as a world map with 1,642 wild animals.
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Dylan Iwakuni: Japanese wood joinery
A woodworker trained under a Kyoto master shows traditional Japanese joints that hold without nails or screws.
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Levon Biss: insects larger than life
British photographer Levon Biss shoots insects, seeds and museum specimens in such detail that every tiny hair shows.
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Jessica Hische's letters
An American lettering artist shows how drawn type comes together, from pencil sketches to finished book covers and logos.
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Zupagrafika: paper brutalism
Polish studio Zupagrafika makes paper models of modernist and brutalist buildings and publishes books on 20th-century architecture.
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Marina Amaral: history in colour
Brazilian artist Marina Amaral colourises old black-and-white photographs, working from historical research.
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Pasta Grannies: Italian grannies making pasta
Older Italian women show how they make pasta by hand, following the recipes of their villages, and talk about their lives along the way.
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Minimiam: tiny people on food
The account of Pierre Javelle, co-creator of Minimiam: model-railway figurines living on pastries, fruit and bread.