Ideas in
black & white.
Politics, economics and public life.
A point of view, drawn in a single image.
A pair of spectacles becomes a building. A pencil casts an unexpected shadow. Scissors cut into the line of a graph. These illustrations turn public questions into compact visual puzzles.
Selected from the New York Times gallery on Trenc’s original website, this group brings together thirty images about institutions, money, power and the ways we see the world. Mostly monochrome, they leave room for a line, a shape or a visual contradiction to carry the idea.
The New York Times
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Explore the collection ↗Illustrations © Milan Trenc. Images from the artist’s supplied website archive. Publication mastheads and page designs belong to their respective publishers.