Weekly Inspiration: Malike Favre

My favourite artist this week is the French illustrator Malika Favre.
I came across one of her pieces of work on designspiration and immediately was drawn to the bright and striking colour palette. The use of these colours coupled with the flat vector illustration compliment eachother perfectly.

My personal favourite pieces of hers are travel illustrations she created for the Kuoni France 2016 brochure - a travel company.

What I love about the pieces is the way that they look very detailed but in reality are very simple, the shapes are simple, and it is the colour used that gives the pieces the detailed appearance, particularly the piece on the left. Favre paints with shadows rather than light, leaving lots of negative space in her work. This makes the work sound dark and dull however the colours counteract this.

As well as scenes like these, Malika also illustrates a lot of figures. You can clearly see her use of negative space here and her style of illustration has led to her work being described as Pop Art meets Op Art (optical illusions) because of her skill in simplifying the piece down to the bare minimum needed.