Virginie Morgand

I’m completely captivated by the work of French illustrator Virgnie Morgand. Even when viewed on the screen her work has a wonderfully nostalgic feeling, like crude color printing on newsprint.

Lots of contemporary illustrators achieve a similar look by adding digitally faked streaks, spots and mis-registration of color fields—techniques which while effective can come across as superficial. Morgand does do a little of that, but the warmth in her work is less contingent on shallowly recreating analog visual tropes than it is a product of her judicious use of restrained color palettes, a line quality that is at once casually expressive and precisely graphic, and a textile designer-like understanding of visual patterns. It’s also distinctly European, if not singularly French.

Virginie Morgand
Illustration by Virginie Morgand
Illustration by Virginie Morgand
Illustration by Virginie Morgand
Illustration by Virginie Morgand

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