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March 2026 Illustration Forecast

From AI anxiety to the search for belonging — what February’s commissions reveal about where illustration is heading

March 3, 2026
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Calvin SpragueHarvard Business Review

Calvin Sprague’s Second Sight for Harvard Business Review

Calvin Sprague’s Second Sight for Harvard Business Review

The Netherlands-based illustrator asks how much a pair of goggles can see without the eyes underneath

March 5, 2026
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Rune FiskerNew Scientist

Rune Fisker’s Curtain Before Time for New Scientist

Rune Fisker’s Curtain Before Time for New Scientist

The Copenhagen illustrator turns theoretical cosmology into theater.

March 3, 2026
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Dadu ShinWired Magazine

Dadu Shin’s Crowd of Ghosts for Wired Magazine

Dadu Shin’s Crowd of Ghosts for Wired Magazine

The Brooklyn illustrator renders the loneliness of the crowd in a single devastating monochromatic field

March 1, 2026
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Raven JiangThe New Yorker

Raven Jiang’s Cosmic Threshold for The New Yorker

Raven Jiang’s Cosmic Threshold for The New Yorker

The New York-based illustrator explores the afterlife

February 27, 2026
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Gracia LamRealSimple Magazine

Gracia Lam and the Warmth of a Wave

Gracia Lam and the Warmth of a Wave

For a RealSimple piece on “mattering spaces,” Gracia Lam turns flattened figures and outstretched hands into a visual grammar of belonging

February 25, 2026
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Owen GentThe New Yorker

Owen Gent’s Eternally Dissolving Wuthering Heights for The New Yorker

Owen Gent’s Eternally Dissolving Wuthering Heights for The New Yorker

Flirting with the Romantic sublime in a painterly take on Brontë's doomed love story

February 24, 2026
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Bratislav MilenkovićFortune

Bratislav Milenković Maps the Bond Market for Fortune

Bratislav Milenković Maps the Bond Market for Fortune

An exciting, colorful path through the interconnected ecosystem of the bond market

February 23, 2026
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Michal BednarskiFast Company

Every Channel at Once: Michal Bednarski’s Illustrations for Fast Company

Every Channel at Once: Michal Bednarski’s Illustrations for Fast Company

A suite of flat, textile-soft figures turns the chaos of Olympic coverage into something composed, warm and deceptively still

February 21, 2026
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Mia OberländerBloomberg Businessweek

Mia Oberländer’s Open-Plan Babel

Mia Oberländer’s Open-Plan Babel

The Hamburg cartoonist brings Expressionist distortion and crayon-box color to Silicon Valley’s voice-mode revolution

February 21, 2026
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Martin HaakeLufthansa

The World Inside the Goggles: Martin Haake’s Illustration for Lufthansa

The World Inside the Goggles: Martin Haake’s Illustration for Lufthansa

On Naivety, Wonder, and the Art Inside the Goggles

February 20, 2026
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Glenn HarveyColumbia Journalism Review

The White Knight’s Dilemma: Glenn Harvey’s “Bias Busters” for Columbia Journalism Review

The White Knight’s Dilemma: Glenn Harvey’s “Bias Busters” for Columbia Journalism Review

Harvey’s luminous white knight channels Howard Pyle and WPA posters to ask whether objectivity is a crusade or a fairy tale

February 18, 2026
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Adrià VoltàThe Wall Street Journal

The Light Grid Swallows the Workforce: Adrià Voltà's Illustration for the WSJ

The Light Grid Swallows the Workforce: Adrià Voltà's Illustration for the WSJ

A vaporwave composition for the WSJ’s Journal Reports section, accompanying a piece on how enterprise AI captures worker knowledge.

February 17, 2026
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Sol CottiNPR

Sol Cotti Brings Warmth and Wanderlust to NPR’s Life Kit

Sol Cotti Brings Warmth and Wanderlust to NPR’s Life Kit

A warm, sun-drenched illustration for NPR’s Life Kit podcast and editorial guide on planning the perfect solo trip.

February 15, 2026
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Hayley WatsonThe New York Times

The Low-Carb Debate Gets a Colorful Treatment from Hayley Watson

The Low-Carb Debate Gets a Colorful Treatment from Hayley Watson

A vibrant fruit and vegetable composition for the NYT Well section, accompanying a piece on why many doctors don’t recommend low-carb diets.

February 14, 2026
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Paul BlowColossus Magazine

Paul Blow Unpacks the Broligarchy for Colossus Magazine

Paul Blow Unpacks the Broligarchy for Colossus Magazine

A striking series of illustrations for Colossus Magazine’s essay on the books that shaped Silicon Valley’s tech elite and their growing political ambitions.

February 13, 2026
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