Quirky Deep Sea Creatures, in Geometric Pastels

Maya Stepien is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Amsterdam. She is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, and has created illustrations for clients including Google, Monocle, Wired UK, Bloomberg, and Monotype. While her work fits the current fashion of flat geometrics rendered in a range of forceful pastels, it rests on a foundation of quirky, old-fashioned character drawings. It’s as if the Aardman world of Wallace and Gromit had been reborn as art deco posters. Her drawings for Zócalo bring this aesthetic to …

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Hair Is the Star of Her Human Faces

Emily Wong is a Los Angeles-based illustrator and concept artist. You can find her work in The New York Times, New York magazine, and in various titles published by Disney …