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Olf de Bruin's illustrative fascination with evolution, mankind and the future

With the wonderful name Olf de Bruin, an unusual style and someone who describes himself as "an illustrator with a great fascination for evolution, mankind and the future", you can imagine the Dutch creative is making a name for himself in the creative industries.

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Colourful illustration by Olf de Bruin showing fantastical humanoid figures with enlarged heads and bodies wrapped in textured fabrics in shades of blue, red and grey, set against dark and green backgrounds

Based in Amsterdam, most of Olf's work includes editorial illustrations for Dutch online journalistic platform De Correspondent. But he also recently created the EP cover for the Dutch band John Coffey.

His latest project – Van Bollebast tot Voortprinter – is an illustrative book about a wonderful and playful future of mankind. An imagined six new species of human beings, evolved and adapted to suit a specific social or scientific setting.

Here we share a selection of his works to give you a flavour of his style. But you can discover more at www.olfdebruin.com.

Via direct submission | All images courtesy of Olf de Bruin

Illustration of an imagined human species with a blue-grey torso, elongated yellow segmented limbs and a long pointed nose, shown front and side view against a pink background
Illustration of an evolved human species with green skin, a long pointed beak and large yellow eyes, set against a pink background
Colourful repeating pattern of imaginative evolved human species on a light blue background, including furry creatures, beings wearing party hats and cone-shaped heads, from Olf de Bruin's illustrative project
Colourful illustration by Olf de Bruin showing fantastical evolved human figures swimming and interacting in water beneath a pink sky
Six illustrated evolutionary specimens by Olf de Bruin including a purple creature, green bottle, yellow round form, yellow-green bird, blue flowering plant and shell-like object
Illustration of a striped figure in a checkered outfit holding a large umbrella-like structure with a green flag on top against a pale pink background
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