Icons created by Russell Bell for Wallpaper*.Few illustrators can claim to have had as much impact on the aesthetic of Wallpaper* as Russell Bell, who died at the end of March, after a short battle with cancer. Bell’s purist, clean-lined approach lent authority to every subject he tackled, from architecture to future technology.
Top, map of Hong Kong and Macau , among a series completed to accompany Wallpaper* Trip features. Above, detail of a Richard Rogers-themed London cycling tour, created as a digital-edition extra for subscribers You could offer up any cartographic brief to Bell and he would transform it into a landscape that begged for further investigation; his cycling map of Richard Rogers’ London buildings commissioned for the architect’s 80th birthday is a classic case in point.