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Little Girls Are Better at Designing Superheroes Than You

By Emily Temple on

In Alex Law’s awesome new project/Tumblr, Little Girls Are Better at Designing Superheroes Than You, which we spotted over at The Rumpus, the undergrad biology student/artist (!) takes pictures of little girls dressed up like superheroes and turns them into awesome drawings. Law writes: ”Kids are more impressionable than you, but kids can also be less restricted by cultural gender norms than you. Kids are more creative than you, and they’re better at making superheroes than you.” Fair enough. Check out some kick-ass little girls and their superheroine counterparts after the jump, and then head here to see more of Law’s work. … Read More

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Stylish Illustrations of Memorable Scenes From ‘Mad Men’ Season 5

By Judy Berman on

What was your favorite scene from Mad Men Season 5? The one where Lane punched Pete? Or was it that odd moment in the diner, when Paul Kinsey told Harry Crane about his Star Trek script? Perhaps you enjoyed watching Roger drop acid? You can relive all of the above — and jog your memory before Season 6 premieres, April 7 — with official Mad Men illustrator Dyna Moe‘s renderings of the most memorable moments from the show’s most recent season. Click through to see a few of the best images from the series, which we discovered via Laughing Squid, and check out Moe’s Mad Men Illustrated Tumblr for a whole lot more. … Read More

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Geffen Refaeli’s Surreal Instagram Illustrations

By Emily Temple on

Israeli illustrator Geffen Refaeli draws strange, surreal and often highly adorable illustrations, each one inspired by other people’s Instagram photos. Fittingly, she publishes a cheeky drawing every few days as dailydoodlegram, and has racked up thousands of followers in the process. As she told Haaretz, ”I almost always look for pictures with objects rather than landscapes, something with a focus rather than a panorama. Usually I choose pictures of an object or animal or a figure that can be removed from its context.” It’s the removal from context that turns these irreverent sketches into art — the way Refaeli can see possibility, magic and weirdness in even the most mundane snapshots. After the jump, check out a few of our favorites from her ongoing project, and then be sure to head over to dailydoodlegram to see many more. … Read More

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Adorable Gender-Swapped Fairy Tale Princes by Yudi Chen

By Emily Temple on

We’re suckers for anything fairy tale related — especially when it’s a little bit twisted — so of course we fell for Yudi Chen’s charming gender-flipped princes when we spotted them over at io9. After all, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your beard!” does sort of have a nice ring to it. Now all we want is an accompanying story to go with each image — any volunteers? After the jump, see what our picture books might look like if Cinderella was born a man, and then head on over to Chen’s Society6 to buy a print for yourself. … Read More

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Laura Callaghan's Intricate Illustrations of Cool, Bookish Girls

By Emily Temple on

For the most part, the girls Laura Callaghan draws are bookish metalheads, with beautifully bushy eyebrows and a penchant for patterns. Which makes them, dare we say, our kind of girls. Callaghan’s work, which we recently spotted over at It’s Nice That, is adorable and disturbing in equal measure, like an uneasy truce between sisters. She creates her cheeky illustrations and beautifully intricate patterns with watercolor, indian ink and “the smallest pens I can get my hands on,” which allow for each picture to be stuffed with tiny details that reward the close observer. After the jump, check out a few of our favorites of Callaghan’s work, and then be sure to head on over to her website for much more. … Read More

Television

Exclusive: A Hand-Drawn Map of the TGS Studio from '30 Rock'

By Sky Friedlander on

[Ed. note: In celebration of the series finale of one of our all-time favorite TV comedies on Thursday night, we're going to be celebrating 30 Rock all week long on Flavorwire. Look for a new feature each day, and be sure to check out all of our previous coverage of the show here.] We know you’re busy weeping into your Cheesy Blasters over the impending series finale of 30 Rock. But give yourself a break and feast your eyes on this hand-drawn map of where the magic all happened — from the bags of hair Jenna’s dressing room to secret bathroom hidden behind the wall in Jack’s office, all illustrated by Flavorwire pal Sky Friedlander. Click the image to zoom in and explore all the nooks and crannies of Studio 6H. We’ll get through this together, everyone! … Read More

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Exclusive: Doodles of Every Girl from Season 1 of ‘Girls’

By Sky Friedlander on

If you haven’t already noticed, we’re quite getting excited for the return of HBO’s Girls tomorrow evening. In honor of the big night, we asked illustrator Sky Friedlander to create a cheat sheet of sorts — a drawing that features every female who had a speaking part in the first season of the program, from the foursome at the center of the action to Tally Schifrin, Hannah’s college nemesis. Click through to check it out now, then head to the comments to let us know which girl is your favorite of the bunch! … Read More

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Obsessive Consumption: An Illustrator Who Draws Everything She Buys

By Emily Temple on

Do you remember what you bought last year? Not just the big stuff, but every drink, office supply, new album? Illustrator Kate Bingaman-Burt does. In her Daily Purchases series, which we spotted over at Lost at E Minor, the illustrator chronicles everything she buys in simple ink drawings — and she’s been doing it since 2006. Crazy obsessive or totally cool? We’re thinking a bit of both. Check out a sampling of our favorites after the jump, and flick through everything Bingaman-Burt bought last year here or head on over to her website to see much more of her great work. … Read More

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Surreal Illustrations from 1970s Psychology Textbooks

By Emily Temple on

If you’re anything like us, you’ve encountered a bizarre illustration or two in the many textbooks you’ve pretended to peruse over the years. But these incredible surreal illustrations by Karl Nicholason for Communications Research Machines textbooks in the early 1970s, which we spotted over at 50 Watts, might just take the cake, weirdness-wise. After all, they look more like illustrations from some cracked version of Alice in Wonderland than they do images from any textbook we’ve ever seen. After the jump, check out a few of our favorites from the set, and then head here to see more of Nicholason’s work. … Read More

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Gorgeous Illustrations of Enchanted Children

By Emily Temple on

We don’t know what it is about the holiday season, but it always seems to conjure fairy children and enchanted princes in our minds. Sugar plums, too. So we were completely charmed by these illustrations by designer Jennifer Madden, which we spotted over at Trendland — portraits of girls with antlers and boys with donkey ears, a faint hint of skepticism or danger hanging around their faces. Click through to take a little trip through wonderland, and let us know what you think in the comments. … Read More