No one has quite a style like the New York based illustrator Ard Su, who\u2019s been commissioned by the likes of Apple and Adidas, and has graced the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Washington Post and The Hollywood Reporter with brilliant images that strike an unique blend of clinical coldness and human warmth. Working primarily in the editorial industry, Ard is proficient in Procreate and Photoshop, often taking on commissions that deal with subjects like tech, medicine, social issues. With subjects that are often abstract or hard-boiled, Ard\u2019s job is to make them look and feel engaging through skills learned in her former studies in literature \u2013 deconstructing narratives, finding metaphors and building stories. The results are stunningly emotional, communicating an intriguing distance between image and reader \u2013 or even between subjects inside of the images \u2013 that is not seen often seen in mainstream editorials.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like to draw human bodies or fragments of them in my work. I\u2019m also drawn to use \u2018vector-like\u2019 elements, like simple shapes and lines and dots,\u201d says Ard. \u201cI guess it\u2019s because I enjoy the tension and balance between the organic and inorganic curves \u2013 and the sentiment and the structure they represent.\u201d Ard breaks down the exhausted Alegria<\/a> editorial illustration style, reusing its flatness for geometric experimentation but adding a more mature sensibility to the colour palette, creating futuristic glosses that meet with her tech and medicine assignments. Inspired by the works of Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Haruki Murakami, Ard channels their topics of loneliness and emotional remoteness. \u201cI\u2019m drawn to the concept of emotional distance, how we stage feelings, perform intimacy, or aestheticize detachment in the modern days,\u201d says Ard. Whether her character\u2019s beady eyes are two pinholes in a vast void or obscured in drapes of dusty shadows, they still feel intensely relatable. In other words, Ard creates deeply felt and human pictures that require no words in order to deliver a rousing message on our current times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No one has quite a style like the New York based illustrator Ard Su, who\u2019s been commissioned by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-20766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}