Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

For the month of August, a series of guest posters will be fill­ing in on DWL with daily posts. Today’s posts come to you from Erin Jang of The Indigo Bunting. For more from Erin, be sure to check out her blog and Food Sketches project. Enjoy!

Very few illus­tra­tors can cap­ture child­hood the way Sato Kanae does. This Japanese illus­tra­tor depicts chil­dren doing things — dream­ing, speak­ing with ani­mals, stand­ing in a dark for­est, smelling oranges, float­ing, gath­er­ing mush­rooms, feel­ing afraid — with a spe­cial sim­plic­ity and inno­cence. I love how she uses sat­u­rated col­ors and a lim­ited palette. See more of her art­work here.