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Graphic design and art direction Studio Elana Schlenker 🌸 [email protected]

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@weronikamarianna For @nytimes #oped beautifully animated frame by frame
#ArtistsNotAI
#stopframeanimation #handpaintedanimation #wsmillustration #artistofinstagram

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Published in March, a @nytopinion piece exploring “Muskism”, and how Elon Musk’s growing empire is blurring the lines between private business, technology and government power!

✒️Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff🖋️

I illustrated #ElonMusk holding the wires that feed power between the Capitol, the Pentagon and the White House. You may see the power strips form an X, turning this messy web of connections into the symbol of Musk’s expanding grip.

I had fun drawing these iconic buildings with my signature bumpy treatment. And, of course, Musk’s funny-looking face, it’s so easy to draw these guys haha

Many thanks to @elanaschlenker for giving my pulsating style so much room to play ! ;)

#nytopinionart #capitolillustration #pentagonillustration #whitehouseillustration

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A big thank you to @wepresent for their trust and for bringing this work to life, and to Monacelli @phaidonpress , for the publication. I’m very proud to be part of this alongside so many incredible artists. Thank you all for the support and for making this possible.❤️

@wepresent
@wetransfer
@danielleboelling
@alex.kahl
@hollymercedes27
@livsiddall
@phaidonpress
@elanaschlenker
@whoremone
Elizabeth Keene/Monacelli

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Young • Latin & PROUD

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RISD GD SPEAKER SERIES — FALL ‘26
Renata Graw, Normal, Chicago
Friday, October 16th
12 pm / GD Commons
& Roundtable discussion @ 1:30 pm (by sign-up)
@renatagraw @thenormalstudio

Richard Turley, Food.xyz, NYC/London
Friday, October 23rd
12 pm / GD Commons
& Workshop with students on Saturday, Oct. 24th (by sign-up)
@fooddotxyz

Elana Schlenker, Studio Elana Schlenker, Pittsburgh
Friday, October 30th
12 pm / GD Commons
& Studio visits with MFA in CIT (by sign-up)
@elanaschlenker

Plus, Saturday Software Workshops / GD Gallery Shows / Roundtables / Advising Days
Sign-up information will be sent to all students via email.
Check out risd.gd for more details.
Fall 26 events identity and poster design by Maham Momin @mahamm0min

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Hi! For those who are new here: we are Tractor Beam, a sci-fi mag dedicated to radical visions rooted in soil.

And we’re Claire and Lana. We met a decade ago working at VICE on science, tech, and impact. Since then, there’ve been dogs, jobs, moves, breakups, marriages, kids, global pandemics…but we’ve remained forever friends and collaborators through it all.

The seed of Tractor Beam was planted long ago when we got obsessed with the idea of optimistic climate fiction. At VICE, we were surrounded by people striving to do the impossible, and young people demanding a better future. But there was a gap between the hope we could see and the despair we could feel. How could we tip the odds without a shared (funky, sexy, aspirational!) vision of tomorrow?

Nearly a decade later, in a true full circle moment, we got the opportunity to try. @drinktractor, a farmer-founded organic beverage company working to change the foodservice industry from the soil up, came to us with a provocation: could we build a culture around restoring and preserving soil health for the long term?

The seed germinated.

We believe stories shape our future, and planet-scale challenges require planet-scale culture shifts. Not many companies fund sci-fi; just those who understand that you have to imagine something before you can build it.

We started calling it soilpunk, not because the world needs more punks, or because we’re necessarily inventing something new, but because we could feel an energy already growing that deserved its own genus and species.

To us, soilpunk means looking to Earth as the foundational ‘technology’ for worldbuilding. It sees humans as just one part of the biosphere, and therefore looks systemically at human impact and agency. Where our close cousin solarpunk foregrounds human-made technology, soilpunk broadens the scope–in who we’re solving for, where solutions come from, and what a better tomorrow might look like. Soilpunk is a little dirtier, a little swampier; it is the messy work of turning death into life and back again.

But that’s just what we think.

What does soilpunk mean to you? Tractor Beam is a platform for you to show us.

Meet Lana!! (@lanazp

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What’s made us stop scrolling lately? 👀

We asked a few Perfect Stormers to share the work they’ve been saving, sending and coming back to.

From overlooked everyday moments and code-led design to seamless loops, bold photography and nostalgic illustration, here’s what’s caught our eye right now.

Consider it a peek inside our saved folders.
What’s made the cut in yours? Tell us below. 👇👇

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After 6 months and 274 drawings, I’m happy to finally show you the @a24books book, which was just released. I had the chance to draw a lot of movies that I love, practice drawing Nicolas Cage’s face several times, and draw tomatoes from Rohmer’s « Le Rayon Vert ».

Thank you so much @elanaschlenker, @whoremonе and @a24books for the trust 🙏

#a24 #a24books #cinema #baptistevirot

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🇺🇸oh America. 🇺🇸WHY ARE WE LIKE THIS? (Gestures wildly) 🇺🇸I tried to answer this question for @nytopinion by writing about 25 very American objects. 🇺🇸 the answer, my friends was blowing in the wind. We might be absurd. But in the right light, we’re also beautiful

editor = anna marks 🫶🫶🫶🫶
Art direction by @elanaschlenker

Artwork by @hospice_1er

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Quick turnaround for @nytimes @nytopinion

“Free Chinese A.I. Is Distorting the World’s Decisions”

Reunion with the mighty @elanaschlenker , thanks Elana!

@roarartists

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Tradwife curious for The New York Times @nytopinion !
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As Joanna Novak writes “maybe it was the moment when I was slicing strawberries from the farm share (…) when a startling revelation dawned on me. (…) I’m definitely not a trad wife- but maybe I’m a little trad wife curious? (…) I have realised that my blanket aversion to the performance of domestic life as a source of fulfilment may be a little misguided”.

A really interesting read, particularly in between chapters of @caroclaireburke ‘s Yesteryear!
Thanks for the great direction AD @elanaschlenker ,
Swipe to see the other iterations!
#tradwife #tradlife #nyt #illustration #tradition

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First illustration for @nytopinion on the rise of LGBT literature. Happy pride sunday! Thank you @elanaschlenker for believing in my creative vision! Article in the link in my bio 🌈

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