Invisible cities

Illustrations based on Italo Calvino's popular novel.

Image 13 of 13 from gallery of What Can Metaverse Planners Learn from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Illustration of Octavia, the spider-web city. Image Courtesy of Cecilia Reeve

Illustration, Photography, Architecture

Sometimes I like to think that Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities saved my life, but it might be more accurate to say it saved my mind. I was working a tedious job at my college over one summer…

A Study Guide with Pen Sketches in today’s context (10 of 55 Cities included here, more to follow)

Interpretazione visiva della città di Tamara, descritta da Italo Calvino nel libro “Le città invisibili“.

School Project for Abadir College of Art, illustration course

Image 11 of 11 from gallery of Intricate Illustrations of Italo Calvino's 'Invisible Cities'. Valdrada. Image © Karina Puente

Artists Camille Benoit and Mariana Gella used lockdown to create their latest project "The invisible city", architectural models of fantastic cities.L'articolo “The invisible city”, Benoit and Gella’s latest project sembra essere il primo su Collateral.

Gérard Trignac is a French artist and engraver, born 1955. As one critic said, He is a dreamer of architecture who practices no other genre. He does not reconstruct ancient Rome, or inventory the built landscape, nor plan cities of the future: he draws his dreams. Some of his work has been done as illustrations for works by others -- these are from Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, an edition produced in 1993. Exquisitely detailed renderings of imaginary places are one of my favorite art…