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Allen Crawford is an artist, illustrator, designer, and writer.

Allen and his wife Susan founded the design and illustration studio Plankton Art Co. in 1996. Their studio’s most notable project to date is the collection of 400 species identification illustrations that are on permanent display at the American Museum of Natural History’s Milstein Hall of Ocean Life in New York.

Under the pseudonym “Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy” Allen wrote, designed, and illustrated The Affected Provincial’s Companion, Volume One (Bloomsbury 2006), which was soon optioned for film by Johnny Depp’s production company, Infinitum Nihil.

In October 2013, Metrolit Verlag in Berlin published a German edition of The Affected Provincial’s Companion, Vol. One.

Allen has appeared in The New York Times, Interview, Orion, Frieze, Vice, Tin House, and Art in America.

Allen’s latest book, Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself (Tin House Books) is an illustrated, hand-lettered, 256-page edition of Walt Whitman’s iconic poem. It’s scheduled for release on May 13, 2014. (Preorders of the book can be made here.)

A lower-case adventurer and explorer of what he calls “the local frontier,” Allen spends most of his time among the nooks and margins of the forgotten, the curious, and the speculative that is found beneath, around, and between the everyday. He lives in a small Quaker town in central New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia.

References and footnotes

http://www.allencrawford.net/about/, retrieved March 4, 2014.

Bibliography

"The Affected Provincial's Companion, Vol. I" (2006)
"Men of the Cloth", Swindle, Issue 8 (2006)

External links

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+Allen Crawford is an artist, illustrator, designer, and writer.
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+Allen and his wife Susan founded the design and illustration studio Plankton Art Co. in 1996. Their studio’s most notable project to date is the collection of 400 species identification illustrations that are on permanent display at the American Museum of Natural History’s Milstein Hall of Ocean Life in New York.
-'''Victor Allen Crawford III''' (born March 22, 1968), better known by the [[sobriquet]] '''Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy''', is an author, graphic designer, and illustrator.  He wrote regular columns for the ''[[Philadelphia independent|Philadelphia Independent]]'' before its close in 2005.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/lord-whimsy/ | title=interviewmagazine.com | date=November 2008 | accessdate = 2013-03-25}}</ref> His first book, ''The Affected Provincial's Companion, Vol. I,'' was published by [[Bloomsbury Publishing Plc|Bloomsbury]] in 2006; in late 2006 [[Infinitum Nihil]], [[Johnny Depp]]’s production company, purchased the film rights to ''The Companion''.<ref>{{cite news
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+Under the pseudonym “Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy” Allen wrote, designed, and illustrated The Affected Provincial’s Companion, Volume One (Bloomsbury 2006), which was soon optioned for film by Johnny Depp’s production company, Infinitum Nihil.
-In 1994 he created the popular Apogee [[typeface]], which was exhibited at the [[Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum]] and used in the [[Sci Fi Channel (United States)|Sci-Fi Channel]] series ''[[Andromeda (TV series)|Andromeda]]''.
+In October 2013, Metrolit Verlag in Berlin published a German edition of The Affected Provincial’s Companion, Vol. One.
-Crawford currently lives with his wife Susan Crawford in [[Mount Holly Township, New Jersey|Mount Holly]], [[New Jersey]], where the pair run the creative firm Plankton Art Co.  Among their most notable commissions is a 400-illustration ocean identification key for the [[American Museum of Natural History]], which was completed in 2003 and will remain on display for thirty years. He also has 2 newphews, Courtney Corson, 16, and Alex Corson, 14 with [[Autism]].
+Allen has appeared in The New York Times, Interview, Orion, Frieze, Vice, Tin House, and Art in America.
+Allen’s latest book, Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself (Tin House Books) is an illustrated, hand-lettered, 256-page edition of Walt Whitman’s iconic poem. It’s scheduled for release on May 13, 2014. (Preorders of the book can be made here.)
+A lower-case adventurer and explorer of what he calls “the local frontier,” Allen spends most of his time among the nooks and margins of the forgotten, the curious, and the speculative that is found beneath, around, and between the everyday. He lives in a small Quaker town in central New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia.
 ==References and footnotes==
+http://www.allencrawford.net/about/,  retrieved March 4, 2014.
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 ==External links==
+*[http://www.allencrawford.net/ Allen Crawford official website]
 *[http://www.planktonart.com/ Plankton Art Co.]
 *[http://www.lordwhimsy.com/ Lord Whimsy]