December 3, 2009
platon's portraits of power
stunning imagery and sweet little stories by new yorker staff photographer, platon can be seen and heard here. sort by name, country, age, gender, tenure <or play match game> – then click faces for a better look + listen to the commentary. incredible work.
ahmadinejad giggles like a little boy
chávez in 8 seconds
<why wouldn’t obama sit?>
November 9, 2009
always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them more - oscar wilde
noma bar conveys intensity and intricate story lines with no words and negative space. born+schooled in israel with a move to london after graduation, pictograms are a logical and clever go-to for the non-native speaker in new land. “i’ve always found pictograms to be fascinating – they can tell stories just as well as words, and they can have multiple interpretations. so i began collecting them in their various forms (stickers, etc.), and i learned to develop my own sign language.” - bar (@newyorker.com)
political cities
bar began illustrating in a bunker with his family when a radio active symbol looked alarmingly like saddam hussein. this drawing earned him his first commission in london.
this is the end
but bar is not strictly limited to political topics – his whimsical paperback, guess who: the illustrations of noma bar features icons from all walks. diplomatic characters and artistic influences line each page, including charlie chaplin – who earns cover status, as bar notes “silent comedy was also a great influence on me—telling stories without words.”
dlylan + potter
i think i’m in love with this guy. this response to What do you have for breakfast? in the wallpaper Q+A sealed the deal:
Cornflakes, coffee and humous. I love humous, I would like to be buried in a large humous jar. me too.
see more powerful works here
