Xinmei Liu: Editorial Illustration With Ink and Argument (opens in new tab)

Xinmei Liu: Editorial Illustration With Ink and Argument abduzeedo May 06, 2026 Xinmei Liu's 2025 editorial illustrations for The Economist, Atlantic, and Bloomberg make sharp, geopolitical arguments in pen-and-ink at magazine scale. The pen-and-ink foundation is what keeps the work honest. Marks remain visible at column width — not as texture, but as evidence of a hand making a decision. Over that, flat digital color fields handle register and politics simultaneously: a blood-orange sky scat...