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Tom Haugomat Uses Your Brain to Fill in the Blanks
Only two airplanes appear in the Paris illustrator’s new piece for Robb Report. But somehow you know that the sky is full of them.
The article this image accompanies is about how private aviation firms handle the air traffic-jam conditions at marquee sporting events. Last year’s Masters brought more than 2,050 business aircraft into the region. The 2026 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off June 11 across sixteen host cities in three countries, is shaping up to be one of the busiest events in private-aviation history. Tom Haugomat’s job was to illustrate that. His solution is to draw almost none of it.
Bratislav Milenković Draws Three Creatives into a Social Timeline for The Guardian
Bratislav Milenković illustrates Daisy Morris’s case for collaboration over algorithms for The Guardian’s “Goodbye Burnout, Hello Balance,” a series sponsored by Adobe Acrobat Studio. Three figures are suspended inside an electronic system and a yellow ribbon scrolls past them like a social timeline. The left figure points at a framed green starburst: something has gone viral. Milenković turns the feed into a conversation, where you can chase the loudest voice or find your own.
Adrián Astorgano Captures that Awkward Moment at the Self-Checkout for The Washington Post
For a Washington Post opinion piece arguing that Connecticut should limit self-checkout lanes, Adrián Astorgano freezes the moment of hesitation. A shopper clutching his basket, caught between a grid of kiosks glowing with red Xs and a lone cashier giving him a slightly unimpressed look from her register. Red light from the nearest screen catches the edge of his hoodie like an icing of guilt. Staging it all with a clean isometric composition makes the awkwardness worse.
Carmen Casado Illustrates How to Start a Garden for The Guardian
The Guardian's April How to Start column is about planting a vegetable garden. Carmen Casado's illustration hits news stands right as most of the Northern Hemisphere is asking the same question. Vegetables float against a blue sky, tools rest on coral soil, a worm curls by the trowel and in the upper corner a mouth bites a tomato. Arranged like step-by-step instructions but with the steps out of order, the illustration is a sensory sampling.
Simone Noronha Lights Up Zara Larsson for The New Yorker
For The New Yorker’s profile of Zara Larsson on her Midnight Sun tour, Simone Noronha pulls in close, a tropical flower tucked behind Larsson’s ear, the airbrush blooming behind her like a gel light catching the back of the stage. The whole frame glows from somewhere just off-camera. You can almost hear her voice captured in this illustrated moment.
Romain Lasser Demotes the House to a Mailbox for The Walrus
For a Walrus essay by David Moscrop on how buying a house made him complicit in Canada’s housing crisis, Romain Lasser draws the house as a mailbox stuffed with financial paperwork, pushing the owner out onto the curb. His dog sits beside him, the only thing here that isn’t an asset. The house is a retirement plan, and nothing lives in it but the mail.
