2024
Illustrator of the Year
Nikola Logosová
Illustrator of the Year
Nikola Logosová
illustrations for her original book Atlas světa (LUX) and the LUSTR 2024 festival’s visual identity
200 words about the work of Nikola Logosová: hum, hatching, line, grey, angle, charcoal, refraction, division, halving, irony, subtle, delicacy, men, women, woman's world, Nikola's world, vision, pink... and we could go on like this for ages. The only thing left to add is 170-times black, and we are done. Now, we must proceed slowly - there is also the irony, which always forms an inseparable part of illustration, and we sincerely wish it to be there. Nikola constantly opposes the eternal wooing as to what should be in an illustration and what should not be there. Quite simply, her work offers more angles of viewing than sometimes desirable. She very often ends up in black, and even in this black, somehow resisting disappearance, one can get lost very easily. Yes, 170-times black is not a little. It is always either dizziness, or peace, either, or. Sure, everyone would like to get a clue, to end up in calm and peace, but I myself am thankful for the vertigo. We all should be. After Martin Kubát, there is finally yet another illustrator who has let the devil out.
Tomáš Luňák