Modern society illustration

Project: Technology column: Chat Etiquette. Client: Smithsonian Magazine, 2016 Author: ©Kotryna Zukauskaite, www.kata-illustration.com

Art isn't created just to please our eyes; it also transfers ideas and provokes thought on social problems. Austrian cartoonist Gerhard Haderer has been producing satirical illustrations and cartoons for adults for decades now, highlighting the awful problems with society.

We all know that nothing is perfect. Our modern society included. Many things are problematic and troubling, and even though we notice them, we are not too fast to work on fixing pressing social issues.

Artist John Holcroft tackles societies issues head-on and illustrates them in his satirical and honest art.

I’m a professional illustrator with a strong fondness for political, social and human issues, with more than 10 years experience collaborating with several publications and companies across four continents. For a long time, I wanted to do a selection of my best works to show some of the problems afflicting the world nowadays.

His illustrations not only highlight society's shortcomings, but they also cause people to reflect on how we have acquired an unhealthy

Davide Bonazzi is an illustrator from Bologna, Italy, who creates thought-provoking images about modern-day social issues. He is a full-time illustrator and has been drawing since he was a child. "In a way, I've created illustrations from childhood, from the moment I could hold a pencil," he told Bored Panda.

Some poetry to pass the time. Cover art by: #mikomaciaszek

By the brilliant Steve Cutts, for Earth Day.

Today we’d like for you to meet the artist Mahnaz Yazdani. Mahnaz’s deep and meaningful work often portrays society's problems in surrealistic illustrations that tend to show how everyday people (just like us) suffer from things that seemingly the rest of our modern society refuses to acknowledge more often than not.