Brooklyn based artist Eddie Perrote captures the essence and life-force of plants in his expressive, bright, chromatic Stoney Point Flowers series. In Vegetables and Cooking he mixes colour, lines and chaos to fun effect. Artist’s website Stoney Point Flowers is a cut and dried flower wholesaler located in the beautiful countryside of southwestern Wisconsin. For …
La Scarlatte is the name of Amsterdam based artist Pauline Teunissen’s one-woman design studio. Her work consists of detailed, elegant, hand-drawn designs inspired by nature. She creates individual artworks as well as surface patterns for product packaging and book covers. For inspiration she cycles over the canals of Amsterdam in search of hidden urban visual …
Plant Curator is yet to visit Kew Gardens’ currently ongoing festival extravaganza – Plantasia – but it is just a matter of time. There is nothing like a nicely designed array of publicity material to lure you in. Using illustrations from the charmingly chimerical artist Andrew Lyons, and creative direction (including name and concept) from 999 …
Yesterday’s Google Doodle (27th May) celebrated the birthday of marine biologist, nature writer and conservationist Rachel Carson (1907-64). Her dismay and outrage at the impact of pesticides on the environment and public health led to her writing the influential book Silent Spring in 1962. The illustration was designed by Doodlier Matthew Cruickshank. Gaining inspiration from her quote ‘In nature nothing exists alone’, he …
On paper the Goaman’s marriage was made in heaven. They both lived together and worked together, but that’s not the good bit. They also designed stamps together and better still, a large number of those had a botanical theme. Is there a more pleasurable activity you could possibly do with your partner? Michael and Sylvia …
The New York Public Library has released over 20,000 maps and cartographic works into the public domain. This means they have done a whole lot of scanning and transcribing on our behalf. Due to the elderliness of the publications, they fall outside of copyright legislation and so are available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 …
Maybe it’s her name, which Plant Curator can’t stop saying, or maybe it’s the lovely bio on her website that is full of positivity, sweetness and colour, or maybe it’s her intricate, sweeping floral headdress illustrations. Whatever it is, the world can’t have enough Sunny Gus. This Los Angeles based fashion and beauty illustrator is …
Graphic designer Christopher Dina series of colourful illustrations titled ‘Fruit’ cleverly show some of the diversity and wonder of these plant parts. The use of the scientific name as the title only adds to the allure, as who would not want to own an artwork called Vaccinium corymbosum, for example? They are much less detailed and …
Plant Curator likes a botanical doodle and none more so than the one that appeared on the 8th of October 2013 to mark the birthday of natural history artist William John Swainson. Swainson took inspiration from all areas of nature in his artworks including 1,200 species of plants. He was also the first illustrator to use …
IAN symbol libraries currently contain 2740 custom made vector symbols for science communication, including eight flora themed albums. Each free botanical icon set can be downloaded as an individual file or on palettes as shown below. You will need to give credit to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, who created this plant art, if you …