How Abbey Lossing Uses Cubism to Build Depth Without Shading: A Look at Today’s NYT Skincare Quiz

How do you illustrate an adult child living at home?

Adrián Astorgano’s Illustration for The Washington Post Uses Scale Inversion to Elevate Three Generations of Chefs

Iain Macarthur Turns a Silicon Valley Feud Into an Illustrated Medieval Tapestry for WIRED Magazine

How a visual language inspired by a tapestry from 1070 captures a 2026 story about encryption keys

WIRED’s Big Story this week is a long profile about the bitter split between two developers behind GrapheneOS and its predecessor CopperheadOS. The feature illustration, by London-based Iain Macarthur, does not look like a feature illustration about a privacy-focused mobile OS. Two mounted knights clash in the center of a horizontal frieze, one on a black horse with a dollar-sign shield, the other on a white horse bearing a shield with a large black keyhole. A body lies face down between them. Two castles burn at either edge of the scene. Archers in the corners are loosing arrows at both combatants. The whole scene is contained inside a red-and-black heraldic border.

Paige Stampatori Turns a Near Miss Into a W for NPR

Tom Haugomat Uses Your Brain to Fill in the Blanks

Only two airplanes appear in the Paris illustrator’s new piece for Robb Report. But somehow you know that the sky is full of them.

The article this image accompanies is about how private aviation firms handle the air traffic-jam conditions at marquee sporting events. Last year’s Masters brought more than 2,050 business aircraft into the region. The 2026 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off June 11 across sixteen host cities in three countries, is shaping up to be one of the busiest events in private-aviation history. Tom Haugomat’s job was to illustrate that. His solution is to draw almost none of it.