Illustration is one of today's fastest growing creative disciplines. Itsversatility has made it a key visual element in fashion, lifestyle,editorial design, and advertising. Illustrations depict and enrich contentin magazines and other publications. They help advertisers to addresstarget audiences more precisely. Illustration appears more and morefrequently in fashion and packaging design, and the combination ofillustration and photography has resulted in a new, more complex visuallanguage. The Beautiful presents the work of 100 of today's trendiest andmost promising illustrators in the areas of fashion, lifestyle, editorialdesign, and commercial illustration.