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Illustrator Alex Varanese

Alex Varanese likes to deconstruct urban environments, rebuilding them in the form of cubes, tiles and other hacked apart elements. He wants to contrast realistic details with totally abstract arrangements, resulting in something both recognizable and surreal.

Alex Varanese’s Urban Cartography composition of fractured city buildings, pavement, street furniture and typography.

This can include buildings, advertisements, sidewalks, cars, anything that is in our everyday lives. He then works in the typography, treating it as part of the final piece.

These images are taken from his portfolio here, you can view more of his work below.

Urban Cartography by Alex Varanese, showing three-dimensional street signs and the words City streets are washed, suburban streets are clean. — Urban Cartography, typography detail. Courtesy Alex Varanese