takei takeo

Japanese children's book illustration from the 1920's. Very much worth checking out, beautiful silhouetty stuff too. Via Neurastenia.

Gossip of the day:
A new member subscribed to the illustrators mailinglist. He asked for comments on his (wonderful imo) website. One of the comments posted was very conceited and dismissive. Subsequently, another list member -who teaches at an artschool- responded in this way to that negative comment: "I just emailed X privately and asked him whether he would consider giving a guest lecture at our artschool. I did not look at the discussed website, and I don't have to see it to understand the kind of humorous, steeped in experience, and especially accurate insight that would, nowadays, stand every designer in good stead." In other words, you have such a wonderful way of telling people how much they suck, you should be an artschool teacher.