Malika Favre

b. 1982

French illustrator, based in London and then Barcelona. Covers for The New Yorker, posters, and campaigns built from a few flat colors, hard edges, and the space left empty. Studied in ART 220 for how far three to five swatches can go when the value structure is right.

Elsewhere

New Yorker covers2013 onwardThe New Yorker; her own siteand hereCount the colors on any of them. Three to five, with the paper often doing the work of one.
GridsHer own sitePattern pieces where one palette repeats across a whole field. What a set looks like when it shares its swatches.
MoviesHer own siteFilm posters. Look at how few colors a poster needs to read across a street.
CollaborationsHer own siteCampaigns and brands. The same hand, a different palette each time, and every one of them limited.

On film

Malika Favre: Illustration, live from OFFF 2018Adobe Creative Cloud2018watch at the sourceA working session on stage. Watch how she builds from shapes and decides color last.

Creative process of illustrator and designer Malika FavreSTIR2022watch at the sourceShort. Her process and the less-is-more rule in her own words.

How Malika Favre landed the New YorkerD&AD Festival2024watch at the sourceThe career talk: how the covers happened, and what a brief from the magazine looks like.

Library

Classroom

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Malika Favre

Elsewhere

On film

Movements

On the wall