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Benedikt Luft's Daily Drawings are a surreal quotidian treat

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18 July 2016

It’s been just over a year since we found out about illustrator Benedikt Luft and his “mad shit,” and since then he’s been busy with a raft of commercial and personal projects. Alongside projects including Cannes Lions postcards and Zeit Campus, he’s completed a wonderful Daily Drawings series that captures everyday life in glorious colourful snippets. There’s a fair bit of visual punnery at play too, with a particular highlight being A Shoulder to Cry On – a poignant little depiction of a man with a long neck crying on his own shoulder. As a series, it’s a lovely portrait of one man’s world, viewed through his unusual, off-beat, brightly hued lens.

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An illustration of a stressed person sitting at a yellow table, their head emerging from a hole in the surface. Red scribbles and a white cloud of steam float above their head, while a small flame burns beside them.
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An illustration of a skeleton lying on a bright blue sun lounger, engulfed in red flames. A large red sun hangs in a solid yellow sky.
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An illustration of a person in a red jacket sitting at a laptop. Their face is a distorted, scribbled expression of stress against a black background and a blue digital grid.

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Emily Gosling

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Emily joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in the summer of 2014 after four years at Design Week. She is particularly interested in graphic design, branding and music. After working It's Nice That as both Online Editor and Deputy Editor, Emily left the company in 2016.

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