Illustration

Commissions for brands and publishers

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Nestlé · Café PRESTO

Two works, Canto al Xolotlán and Bailes de la Cosecha, reproduced on limited edition collectible mugs for International Coffee Day.

Elsa Basil speaking on camera beside a screen showing her colorful Café PRESTO mug illustration

Video: Conocé a Elsa Basil | Tazas Café Presto® · Nestlé Centroamérica

The work, and the object

A fan shaped mug wrap of the harvest fiesta, a dancer in a swirling yellow dress among marimba, palms and a tiled village

A fan shaped mug wrap of motmot birds over white sacuanjoche flowers, a violet volcano across the lake

Two illustrated ceramic mugs of black coffee beside a jar of Café PRESTO on a warm yellow ground

Canto al Xolotlán and Bailes de la Cosecha, reproduced on limited edition collectible mugs for International Coffee Day. Photograph by Nestlé Centroamérica.

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A commercial illustration practice with the same hand and the same conscience as the paintings.

Elsa Basil draws for brands, publishers, and art directors. For La Ruta Nicaragua her drawing left the page entirely and went onto plates, magnets, notebooks, and a serving board. She illustrates the way she paints: she takes a place apart and rebuilds it as feeling. A children's book is in progress.

Commission

Elsa Basil seated in her studio beside small illustrated works

Clients

Case study

La Ruta Nicaragua

An illustrated identity for Nicaragua that did not stay on paper. The volcanoes and their water, the masks of the fiesta, and then the plates, the magnets, the notebooks, the board carried out of a shop. The same hand, all the way to the shelf.