The illustrations of Japanese illustrator Wataru Yoshida offer an irregular but considered view on the workings of the body.

 

 

An internal and otherwise never seen space filled with external objects; a gas lamp, a pair of compasses and the mechanised workings of a film projector nestled in amongst the fibrous and sinuous tissues of the muscles, ligaments and skin.

 

 

 

This surrealist account of the human body,  that melds the organic with the inorganic, saw Yoshida chosen as a finalist in the 2010 Adobe Design Achievement Awards illustration category.

More achievement followed, when in the  2011, Yoshida made it through to the semi-finals in Adobe’s photography category with the Composition of Mammals poster series produced for a mock exhibition, exploring the anatomy of mammals, held at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo.

 

 

Photographs of taxidermy specimens are subtly overlaid with illustrations of the inner skeletal structures of mammals, perfectly highlighting the inner complexities of mammalian life.

To see more, www.wataru-yoshida.com

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