Turtle Eagles and Flormenes: The Chimerical Zoology of Mark Brooks

The New York artist teams up with Spanish illustration studio Alademosca to bring these impossible evolutions to life.

The entire current spectrum is not enough. Surely in some alternative universe Darwin would have torn his hair out trying to decipher how Mother Nature came to concoct something like an eagle tortoise, the stag or the deer. But this whole atlas of non-existent species, at least in our universe, can only be found in Mark Brooks' The Creative Specimens .

Chimeric animals never seen before

This art director and graphic designer from New York has decided to let his imagination run wild and, on the occasion of the Adobe 99U Conference in 2020, create a zoo as colorful as it is fictional, in which cacti have tentacles, the fruits of trees are snails and starfish, and the tails of parrots are jungle vines.

The Alademosca design studio brings these unusual beings to life.

But he has not been alone in the final result of these creatures, almost straight out of a Jules Verne book. On the contrary, Mark Brooks, in his effort to unite different styles, used his knowledge of digital illustration so that Joan Miquel Bennassar and his team from the Mallorcan studio Alademosca would later bring them to life in physical format.