07/01/2026
From Shanghai to Liverpool, and everywhere in between 🌍✨👀
Illustrator Yufei Yang, aka Rainbow Draws, has turned her love of travel into a bold, joyful body of work inspired by cultures, colours, people and places around the world. From Bauhaus and Picasso to paper textures, scribbles, and playful imperfections, her illustrations feel alive, tactile, and full of curiosity.
“I’m inspired by what I see when travelling. People, plants, animals, buildings, food. Everything unique to a place catches my attention.”
Her process is part conversation, part experimentation, often creating sets of images rather than one-offs, exaggerating what she notices most at first glance. Recent highlights include work for Condé Nast Traveller, a public commission with National Museums Liverpool, and even sneaky animations. Yes, including a tiny fish flag 🐟
Fun fact. Those plants you spot in her work. They’re usually her own house plants. And she has a lot of them 🌿
Read more: https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/rainbow-draws-its-so-important-to-stay-curious-about-the-diversity-of-this-world/
