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© 2003 Amanda Duffy
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Amanda Duffy is one of North America's busiest illustrators. Her unique style is impossible to pigeonhole, but easy to recognize; two-thirds Renaissance, and a sixth each of Twenties, Deco, Beat Generation cool and postmodern Punk. Also identifiable; a rotating cast of offbeat characters (including an other-dimensional simulacrum of the artist herself) who inhabit her angular landscapes. Her illustrations have been described as "perfect confections, neatly wrapped in printer's ink", ranging from crystalline metaphors, to witty and urbane editorial work and spot-on caricatures. She appears to take particular delight in skewering the grandiose and deposing the pretentious, then ascending to the empty throne with superior pretensions of her own. "To please me, my work has to be infused with an element of truth and at least a half-twist of intellect," she says."Without this, illustration is mere wallpaper."
Amanda Duffy's work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly, New York Daily News, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, Forbes, Saveur, Inc., Fast Company, Barron's, Slate, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, The Wall Street Journal, Canadian Business, and the Globe and Mail's Report on Business.
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