Illustration for an article on baby boomers hitting retirement
I really dig Brian Rea. His editorial illustrations are clever and delightful, and his lettering and drawings styles are completely magnetic. Check out his large-scale diagrams of his fears, made for an exhibit called Murals at the Juan Miró Foundation in Barcelona. I particularly like his fear of "moose attacks;" hello thorough.
Rea was interviewed by Mia Hansen at PLAY. My favorite part was his response to the question, "What is the coolest thing you have seen recently while wandering the streets?":
"One moment certainly stands out since I've been here in NYC - I was way up on Broadway passing by an enormous food market - the kind with all the produce spilling out along the sidewalk and I noticed a tiny old lady standing in front of a green plywood display of celery, iceberg lettuce, baby spinach, green peppers, green cucumbers, green bananas, green beans and green avocados. She was dressed in a bright green wool pea coat, bright green rubber boots and a bright green knit cap with little green wool beads sticking out like a pineapple - couldn't have been more than 4 feet tall. She stood quietly hand picking and inspecting individual snap snow peas, a whole bag full and placing them into a little green grocery basket. The only other color besides green in the whole scene was her white hair sticking out from her cap. I almost passed out."
