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1. Laura Osorno’s Creepy-Cute Critters

If the denizens of Richard Scarry’s Busy Town had children, and those children grew up and moved to Tokyo and dropped E at a Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re concert and woke up the next morning pregnant and decided to keep the babies, and those babies grew up and had a huge fight with their parents and jumped on a freighter bound for Colombia and ended up in a squat in Bogota, they might look something like the hilarious, angry, stressed-out, manic critters that populate the imaginary world of Laura Osorno.

Also they are very cute.

Also, sometimes they are zombies.  But still very cute.

Laura Osorno was born in Bogota, Colombia. She has been illustrating since her last years of school. She studied graphic design in Bogota and has been based there ever since.

I absolutely love Laura’s character designs.  She marries a raw, uncultured punk sensibility to a sophisticated understanding of design and execution to create delightfully ugly creatures you just can’t resist.  They’re like little strung out hoboes you stumbled over while walking past the methadone clinic – but the cutest little darling hoboes!  You just want to take ‘em home and tuck them into your bed and cuddle them!

With Hallowe’en just around the corner, Laura Osorno draws her coolest, cutest, creepiest creations on the window of a Bogota restaurant.

… including zombies!

There’s tons more to see at Laura Osorno’s website


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