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Bold and beautiful vintage-inspired travel illustrations for Kuoni France by Malika Favre

When travel company Kuoni France approached London-based French illustrator Malika Favre to help decorate its new travel brochure for 2016, she applied her usual unmistakable style – a sprinkling of bold minimalism with a striking use of positive and negative space and colour.

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Images courtesy of Malika Favre

Images courtesy of Malika Favre

The illustrations almost hark back to the style of the early 20th-century travel posters, which would promise all kinds of delights up and down the UK and across the world. But Favre's typical nod to what is described as "Pop Art meets OpArt" – gives the artworks a more modern slant, full of dreamy colours and satisfying shapes and lines.

As one of the UK's most sought after graphic artists, Favre's clients include The New Yorker, Vogue, BAFTA, Sephora and Penguin Books, amongst many others. Discover more of her deliciously satisfying work over at malikafavre.com.

Open Kuoni France travel brochure showing a blank left page labelled "Paresses" and a colourful illustration by Malika Favre of a woman in a red swimsuit on a beach with geometric patterns and a sunset scene against a hot pink background
View from the deck of a cruise ship towards turquoise waters, icebergs and snow-capped mountains under a pink sky, with small figures on the ice
Kuoni France travel brochure spread showing blank left page and right page with stylised illustration of a cruise ship with red deck against turquoise sea and blue mountains under pink sky
Stylised illustration of two flamingos wading in shallow water with their reflections below, set against layered bands of pink, blue and sandy tones representing sky, water and beach
Layered illustration of flamingos wading in turquoise water against a pink sky, with mountains and beach, in bold minimalist colours and shapes by Malika Favre for Kuoni France
Figure in orange swimsuit floating in a geometric pool between modernist buildings under a rising sun, in bold blues, oranges and reds
Woman floating in a swimming pool at a modernist resort with geometric architecture and a sun on the horizon in bold coral, blue and orange tones
A figure riding a camel traverses a stylised desert landscape of geometric striped hills in shades of blue, green, pink and cream against a bright blue sky
Open Kuoni France 2016 travel brochure showing title page and illustration of a figure on a stylised mountain landscape with striped peaks in blue, pink and green
Woman in colourful swimwear stands on a terracotta balcony overlooking turquoise sea with a sailboat in the distance, surrounded by tropical foliage
Open book spread with "Breaks" section on left page and Malika Favre illustration of a red modernist building with figure on balcony against turquoise sea on right page
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