Invisible cities

Illustrations based on Italo Calvino's popular novel.

Illustration, Photography, Architecture

Short enough to finish in one plane, train, or car ride. Meaningful enough to stick with you throughout your travels.

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

In the second part of the book, we get introduced to Maurilia, a postcard city. Here the recurrent discussion of change, and perception of change is metaphorized through an old and new Maurilia, in…

School Project for Abadir College of Art, illustration course

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…

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

Image 5 of 13 from gallery of What Can Metaverse Planners Learn from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Illustration of Zobeide. Image Courtesy of Pooja Patel

This work of fiction is not just a story, it’s a rich conversation and a surreal travelogue of the most fantastical cities.Invisible Cities, the 1972 novel by writer Italo Calvino (translated by William Weaver) is said to be one of his most cherished works. This work of fiction is not just a story, it’s a rich conversation between Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, and Marco Polo, the Venetian traveler. The book is a vivid travelogue of the most fantastical cities Marco Polo visited on his…

The second collection of limited edition art prints

When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city. Finally he comes to Isidora, a city where the buildings have spiral staircases encrusted with spiral seashells, where perfect telescopes and violins are made, where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third, where cockfights degenerate into bloody brawls among the bettors. He was thinking of all these things when he desired a city.

Illustrated cover for the wonderful Invisible Cities by Caitlin Russell, http://www.caitlinrussellart.com/cities.html

City illustration - Branding

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.

Image 1 of 16 from gallery of Italo Calvino's 'Invisible Cities', Illustrated (Again). Zobeida. Image © Karina Puente Frantzen