An Automotive Retrospective with Kevin Sprouls
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From Saturn to Mercedes Benz, Kevin Sprouls has created quite a few illustrations for the automotive industry.
Kevin Sprouls’ Latest Time Cover
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Kevin Sprouls, creator of the Wall Street Journal portrait style known as hedcut, was commissioned by TIME to create a portrait of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who has …
Kevin Sprouls Illustrates The World.
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The illustrated map is a great form of info graphics that combines elements of visual interest and information. These maps created by Kevin Sprouls are a great combination of line work, texture, motif and …
Kevin Sprouls Creates Magic.
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Illustrator Kevin Sprouls’ latest project for Quirk Publishing involves some sleight-of-hand. His how-to illustrations appear in the instruction booklet and on the packaging design for Quirk’s amazing, magical Wonder Deck. To …
Kevin Sprouls for Vouch
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Vouch, a start-up that provides business insurance to other start-ups, hired Kevin Sprouls to help create a brand that business can trust. The black-and-white technique he employs is immediately recognizable as the portrait style that has been …
The Illustrated Portrait
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Workbook illustrators offer their clients endless ways to capture their subjects. Above: Tim O’Brien August Wilson/USPS
The Currency Style of Kevin Sprouls Is in Circulation
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Kevin Sprouls is a master at the highly detailed and exacting work of reproducing the look of the portraits on our currency. They have been appropriated for use on a Time magazine …
Kevin Sprouls Creates Portraits for the New Statue of Liberty Museum
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Kevin Sprouls is the creator of the Wall Street Journal portrait style. The Wall Street Journal portrait style of Kevin Sprouls was the perfect solution for these three portraits. The designer, …
The Great Run of Kevin Sprouls at Worth Magazine
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Throughout his time with the Wall Street Journal and then Worth magazine, Kevin Sprouls has employed his signature “headcut” portrait style on just about every titan of the financial world. As …
Kevin Sprouls and the Evolution of the “Hedcut”
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Kevin Sprouls developed the “hedcut” style while working at the Wall Street Journal in the early 1980s. In this blog post he describes how, over a period of about six months, he refined …
