Illustration for The Washington Post
I've been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, probably since I started my career as illustrator and finally it arrived and it was beautiful! It's nice to be excited about your own work again. Thanks to the team at The Washington Post.
What a great emotion reading on the WP site...
(Andrea De Santis For The Washington Post)
The article I worked on is titled:
In defense of sad beige - Despite the online scorn, neutrals remain hugely popular for a reason. (written by Kassia St. Clair).
You don’t have to look hard to find people being rude about neutrals. “Sad beige” and “millennial gray” have become go-to pejoratives to describe everything from children’s playrooms to entire ways of living. During the pandemic, as searches on Etsy for beige children’s clothing rose 67 percent, Hayley DeRoche amassed hundreds of thousands of followers while skewering the trend from her handle @sadbeige. One viral video mocked a monochrome gray restroom: “It’s giving airport. It’s giving ‘live, laugh, love.’ It’s giving corporate.” In these missives, neutrals aren’t a reflection of color preference, but of a personality problem.[…]
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