525 Designer/Artist of the Week
This weeks featured artists are photographer and illustrator duo, Evan and Nicole Robertson who co ounded and started up Obvious State in 2011. Inspired by literature and quotes, these two create beautiul graphic posters.
"WORDS, READ IN SUFFICIENT QUANTITIES, MAY PRODUCE ALL THE EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS"
While reading his paperbacks, Robertson developed a habit of underlining the most grabbing lines. He noticed that some of them inspire his hand as much as his head, so he started combining them together with graphic visualizations.
Robertson says he uses the lines that he finds while traveling or sometimes stumbles upon by accident, and sees them as hyperlinks, which can “leave the rest of the story behind and open up a new window of ideas, insights, musings”.
His plan is to complete 50 posters a year, having done 24 already. Among those are lines from books by Kurt Vonnegut, Ernest Hemingway and Jean-Paul Sartre.
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