Alexander Wells Illustrates Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy for The Folio Society

Alexander Wells Illustrates Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy for The Folio Society

Alexander Wells Illustrates Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy for The Folio Society

I discovered the work of illustrator Alexander Wells in the most recent issue of Port Magazine. His illustration work really caught my eye and so I checked out his website to see more of his stuff. It was there that I discovered this incredible series of illustrations he recently produced for The Folio Society’s edition of Isaac Asimov’s highly acclaimed Foundation Trilogy. Released late last year, the books look terrific and Wells’ illustrations really make it come to life!

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Philip Kennedy

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May 30, 2013 - See more posts by Philip

Andrew Lyons’ Incredible Bird Illustrations for Strong

Andrew Lyons' Bird Illustrations

Andrew Lyons' Bird Illustrations

It’s pretty awesome when you’re able to get that client who totally trusts you to do what you do best. They want you for your talent, and that’s what you give them. I feel like this is what happened with Andrew Lyons and the illustration project he worked on for Strong, a brand of nutrient supplements. I wouldn’t normally tie together supplements with incredible illustrations, but that’s exactly what we have here.

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Bobby Solomon

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May 28, 2013 - See more posts by Bobby

Space Suit of the Week – SMATIK’s Dead Astronauts

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There is a wonderful scene in WALL-E of the spaceship Axion re-entering Earth’s polluted and desolate atmosphere; space waste is littering the planetary field surrounding the pale blue dot and suffocating it. Immediately seeing SMATIK’s Dead Astronaut wallpaper, I remembered this scene with great clarity.

There is currently 19,000 pieces of debris larger than 5cm and another 300,000 pieces smaller than 1cm that is hovering around our homeland. Space junk consists of a wide range of material left behind from the quest of space exploration – spent rockets, old satellites, etc. This growing beehive of debris that may collide with operational spacecrafts and other bodies.

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Alana Zimmer

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May 24, 2013 - See more posts by Alana

Illustrative Characters by Shen Plum

Shen Plum ghosts

Shen Plum illustration

It’s always fun to get sucked down the internet rabbit hole and led somewhere unexpected. While tooling around Etsy, I came across a store called Tiny Crystals which was selling hand-painted necklaces and journals with fantastic illustrations by Toronto-based artist Shen Plum. I was then led to her prolific online journal only to discover a world inhabited by vampire girls, ghost gangs, and skateboarding rabbits.

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Andi Teran

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May 23, 2013 - See more posts by Andi