Allen Crawford

For other people named Alan Crawford (disambiguation), see Alan Crawford (disambiguation) (disambiguation).

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.

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

• Allen Crawford official website
• Plankton Art Co.
• Lord Whimsy
• Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself from Tin House
• Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself on Amazon
• The Affected Provincial's Companion, Vol. 1 at Bloomsbury Publishing
• Apogee Typeface