Dark Inspiration: Grotesque Illustrations, Art & Design
Happy Halloween, dudes and ladies! My gift to you: Dark Inspiration: Grotesque Illustrations, Art & Design. A coffee table book to scare both the unwelcome trick-or-treaters and your mother-in-law away!
Dark Inspiration was previously released as a two-part series from design book publisher Victionary. In honor of their 20th Anniversary, the house has condensed all of the grotesque illustrations, art, and design that fed their dark inspiration into a single volume, and is reissuing it as a combination of macabre art highlights from the originals, plus some new works they hope will also ensnare and unsettle, and fascinate you with their darkness too.
Or maybe just frikkin' freak the frack out of you.
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