Illustration Helps Us Make Sense of the Worldpublshd Helps Make Sense of Illustration

Illustration is in the middle of a moment. Magazines, books, and campaigns are commissioning every day, yet it has never been harder to see. publshd is a dedicated illustration news feed that pulls it all together in one place. No algorithm. No filter.

Posts on social media now reach just 3.5% of followers on average. Algorithms bury static images, and illustrators are increasingly asked to perform as influencers, making content about being an illustrator instead of being one. publshd is built on the idea that the work deserves more focused consideration than it’s getting.

publshd is more current than the annuals, more relevant than the directories, and more dignified than social media. We document the illustrations getting commissioned right now, the artists making them, and the visual languages emerging across the field.

And we go beyond cataloguing. We read each piece closely, looking at its composition, the conceptual decisions behind it, the art-historical lineage it draws from and the cultural moment it’s answering. Illustration deserves the same serious attention given to any other field of art-making.

Illustrations make sense one at a time. Looked at together, they reveal so much more: a record of what we are paying attention to, what we believe in, and what we cannot put into words. publshd brings a human point of view to that record.

We invite you to help keep publshd the most relevant illustration resource available. If you saw an illustrated article, book cover, poster, or campaign this month, tell us about it.

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publshd was founded by Joshua Gorchov, an illustrator who has worked with Time Magazine, Wired, Rolling Stone, Fortune, Texas Monthly, The New York Times, Converse, United Airlines, and McSweeney’s, and has been recognized by Communication Arts, American Illustration, and the Society of Illustrators. He is a co-founder of The Loud Cloud.