"Birds are not aggressive creatures, Miss. They bring beauty to the world."
Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963)
Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera – The Internet.
Paris by Tuesday…
On a sunny day in Paris, on the only day nearly everything is closed to the public. Tuesday.
Fragment of drawing made en face Notre Dame.
Hotel de Ville.
French window avec Ourse Grizzly.
J. Doyne Farmer Wilderness mapped…
J. Doyne Farmer commissioned me to imagine the economic concept of The Wilderness of Bounded Rationality for his new book Making Sense of Chaos.
I was unaware of bounded rationality until I illustrated this. But it isn’t my own work. Doyne suggested his idea of the gates in a simple drawing and I took it from there.
All images shown © David Mackintosh. 2023. Not for reproduction of duplication without permission.
Illustration and animation © David Mackintosh 2023.
The Intelligence Gate (detail). © David Mackintosh 2023.
Wilderness (detail). © David Mackintosh 2023.
Behind the banner (detail). © David Mackintosh 2023.
The Rationality Gate (detail). © David Mackintosh 2023.
The Rationality Gate (detail). © David Mackintosh 2023.
Illustration awards night of nights…
Thank you to the organisers of the Victoria and Albert Museum Illustration Awards for the awards party the other night. A good night was had by all, especially the winners. The runners up got a mention too. A mention was made of the creator of the awards who wasn’t there and several other people who weren’t there. The audio in the photography gallery was terrible and I didn’t understand much of the speeches, but I figured that the smiles belonged to the winners. The canapés were excellent. Didn’t get to see the exhibition because of the slow moving queue, but went back the following day for a proper look.
Inaudible and invisible: the awards presentation.
The French window…
Dans la fenetre biblioteque. Photo © profuselyillustrated.com
Show Me The Rabbit agency brand…
Pedestrian…
As seen at the royal academy.
Roman all over the place…
Looking at a copy of the last supper, I was attracted to the classical feet of the disciples, and the host himself. I looked at all of them and they appear identical. That’s classical training for you.
“In the classical view, the great toe is separated from the second, the middle three toes are parallel but diverge 30 degrees from the axis of the foot, and the fifth toe is in adductovarus. (Podiatry Today, 2010).
Modern feet. (Shod).
Close to my phone…
“Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is.” – Charles Bukowski, On Cats.
That’s why he’s on my phone.
Armin Greder's latest picture book…
Armin Greder’s confronting new picture book Voi (published by Orrechio Acerbo) arrived in the country. Safe and sound. It was thoughtfully accompanied by an English translation, though the illustrations are loud and clear.
