Luis Mendo Work

Personal work, especially made for the solo show BONJOUR PARIS. Feb 2024.

Cover art for the Weekend Podcast of The Guardian.

The day I stop drawing, I’ll open a bookshop with very irregular opening times and a very big window.

This drawing is available as an UNIQUE print here.

Poster for my 2023 show in Groundseesaw Seochon.
Seoul, South Korea. More info here.

Mountain of Birds
Especially made for the solo show BONJOUR PARIS. Feb 2024.

Personal work, especially made for the solo show BONJOUR PARIS. Feb 2024.

Peace is heavily underrated.

Tokyo pm, an architects office who designed their own space where they included a shop, cafe and restaurant with the best of taste.

Illustration in Wired World 2022 issue, opening the Environment section

The HomeStayer — Extra issue (nr. 9). You can buy a print of this image here.

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One of four covers highlighting Dutch urban life. This one’s theme was Entrepreneurship.

Juxtapose is a NYC based company which builds and funds industry-defining technology businesses.

Tokyo City Girl
Especially made for the solo show BONJOUR PARIS. Feb 2024.

About the mental health effects of the pandemic. You can buy a limited edition print of this image here.

About the mental health effects of the pandemic

Personal work, especially made for the solo show BONJOUR PARIS. Feb 2024.

Things you can do to improve your happiness in 2021

For advertising agency AKQA Careers page — The excitement of Tech

Hand On Fire.
Especially made for the solo show BONJOUR PARIS. Feb 2024.

Illustration in the Wired World 2021 issue. About the mental health effects of the pandemic. You can buy a limited edition print of this image here.

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Issue 16. Published by STRIPE.

Japanese Tableware.
Especially made for the solo show BONJOUR PARIS. Feb 2024.

Inspired by Wes Anderson’s movie Hotel Chevalier, I recreated an imagined love scene located in the same hotel mr. Anderson used.

Issue 16, inside article. Published by STRIPE.

Fargo (TV Show), season 4

Writers who write about different places

Writers who write about different places

A homage to fantastic photographer Inge Morath

Once we finished all the pages of 2022, we could move on to start from scratch.

The plum tree near our apartment.

The Tokyoiter is a promotion platform to support artists living in Tokyo. Made as a tribute to The New Yorker traditional and The Parisianer cover art.

Tree sunset

Personal work, especially made for the solo show BONJOUR PARIS. Feb 2024.

When visiting the zoo, I saw this crow on one of the trees, apparently chocking on a something he had eaten.

Cover illustration for THE WAKING, book by Matthew Smith.

Crime Scenes — The Businessman
Personal work, especially made for the solo show BONJOUR PARIS. Feb 2024.

A story about the relaxing of lockdown measures in Spain, where people were partially allowed to leave the house but encouraged to stay inside.

Fish Chart

Part of a series portraying places in the US which played a role on the birth and growth of soul music.

Portrait of Colette founder Sarah Handelman

Portrait of Korean, Paris based designer Jong Kim.

Portrait of fashion designer Mame Kurogouchi

For an article about women football and its history.

When missing summer, I will draw memories of past holidays

Vase with flowers

This huge lamp hanged outside a fugu (blow fish) restaurant in Osaka, Japan, for years. It was taken down as the restaurant closed due to the pandemic.

My love for the Columbo TV show is big

Teddy the dog

Roppongi from Aoyama Cemetery

Reflection on the lockdown due to the pandemic. You can find the page here.

On a story at Tel Aviv

While they do a renovation inside the shop, department store Wako in Ginza, Tokyo, needed to cover the construction. This is an overview of all the different displays they had for the last 70 years.

Unused drawing on diversity in schools

A drawing of the bike repair shop near my house in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

Paris world exhibition in the 19th century

Special issue about Cities — Tokyo & the pandemic

Small spots for a piece on writers who travel

Me, as Commissaire Maigret

Collaboration between Japanese male fashion magazine Popeye and American watch brand Timex

For advertising agency AKQA Careers page — Craftsmanship

Promotion for WeTransfer’s image collecting app.

In-house ad promoting Monocle’s newsletters

In-house ad promoting Monocle’s stores around the world.

Brand illustrations for the famous Danish bakery chain.

Welcome screens for an app for dads.

Character development for a new wine from the Symington Family Estates

Character development for a new wine from the Symington Family Estates

Character development for a new wine from the Symington Family Estates

Unpublished series featuring LG latest products in Monocle magazine (wine cooler)

Unpublished series featuring LG latest products in Monocle magazine (intelligent TVs)

Mister Mendo is my alter ego and has his own website and also his own iMessage stickers pack.

Spot illustrations for Monocle’s magazine, issue 135 - July/august 2020

Spot illustrations for Monocle’s magazine, issue 135 - July/august 2020

Spot illustrations for Monocle’s magazine, issue 140 - February 2021

Spot illustrations for Monocle’s magazine, issue 140 - February 2021

Spot illustrations for Monocle’s magazine, issue 140 - February 2021

Spot illustrations for Monocle’s magazine, issue 140 - February 2021

On the future of fashion after Covid-19

Every week I draw a different city for the Travel section of Volkskrant Magazine from Amsterdam.

For Harper Collins, this book by Kate Watson-Smyth is filled with 42 illustrations of houses and rooms.

For Harper Collins, this book by Kate Watson-Smyth is filled with 42 illustrations of houses and rooms.

For Harper Collins, this book by Kate Watson-Smyth is filled with 42 illustrations of houses and rooms.

For Harper Collins, this book by Kate Watson-Smyth is filled with 42 illustrations of houses and rooms.

For Harper Collins, this book by Kate Watson-Smyth is filled with 42 illustrations of houses and rooms.

Character and visual development for a short movie explaining Montblanc’s environmental pledge

Character and visual development for a short movie explaining Montblanc’s environmental pledge

Character and visual development for a short movie explaining Montblanc’s environmental pledge

A tale of my first trip to Seoul.

The product of drawing during a short train ride

Brand Illustrations for The Week Magazine. AD by Elmwood Design in London.

Brand Illustrations for The Week Magazine. AD by Elmwood Design in London.

Brand Illustrations for The Week Magazine. AD by Elmwood Design in London.

Part of a series of spots for The New Yorker that never got published.

Part of the Naked Since 1969 Tokyo show.

Lunch on the High Line, Manhattan (B/W version)

Juxtapose is a NYC based company which builds and funds industry-defining technology businesses.

Juxtapose is a NYC based company which builds and funds industry-defining technology businesses.

Portraits for promotion of new typographic families from Japan

Portraits for promotion of new typographic families from Japan

Nigel Slater interview on WePresent, the magazine of WeTransfer. Read the interview here.

Gary Oldman in the Slow Horses, a spy thriller TV series based on the 2010 novel of the same name by Mick Herron.

Alec Guinness as George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)

Character design for UK’s nr 1 food online shop Sous Chef. Developed together with independent design studio Irving & Co.

Chica Pensativa

Evening rituals.

Style exploration

Portrait of family members.

After reading the news of the change of name from Facebook to Meta, and the introduction to the new logo, I made this portrait of Mark Zuckerberg.

Collaborators portraits for Monocle’s fashion mag Konfekt (never published)

Collaborators portraits for Monocle’s fashion mag Konfekt (never published)

Dolores Dancausa, CEO.

Spot illustration travel pages

Style explorations

Mister Mendo is my alter ego and has his own website.

On how to make a perfect illustration briefing

For sustainable jeans brand Tenue, educating customers of ways to consume fashion responsibly.

For sustainable jeans brand Tenue, educating customers of ways to consume fashion responsibly.

My daughter Tomo

Explorations on line quality

For an article about city planning after the covid-19 pandemic

About engineering new kinds of food

Used in different merch items for the Mundo Mendo show.

Lupe. Character explorations.

Ginza street, drawn on sketchbook while waiting in the queue for ramen

Wine bar in Firenze, Italy.

A car parked in Minato-ku

Dutch clothing brand Atelier Munro new shop in New York City.

Dutch clothing brand Atelier Munro store in Toronto, Canada.