If you ask Los Angeles based designer and illustrator Andrea Roady who her fashion icon would be, she would tell you without a doubt it is Queen Elizabeth I. Andrea has a fondness for the Elizabethan era and she draws much of her inspiration from it. Oh, P.S. if you don’t know what “anachronistic” means, as I didn’t, it is a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place, especially one from a former age that is incongruous in the present.
Dean Motter is the legendary designer, illustrator, and writer most known for his masterpiece ‘Mister X Archives’ that launched the careers of other famous creators like Jaime Hernandez and Dave McKean. The collection, a fusion of Art Deco, German Expressionism and Film Noir, recently won Print magazine’s Regional Design Award and the PubWest Award. Motter has since released ‘Mister X: Condemned’ which continues to explore the philosophy of psychetecture – the idea that a city’s layout can influence its citizen’s emotional state – through antique futurism. His work is currently on exhibit at The Cité in Paris along side original art from Windsor McCay’s ‘Little Nemo’.
