Blanca Gomez (she provided the illustration for our very first cover) has some new cards available through Red Cap Cards. This sweet couple in the always-stylish turquoise + orange colour combination is on its way to this sweet couple. Thanks, Kirstie and Kevin!
With a goal of finding a new way for readers to delve into the story of a book, Spanish graphic designer Alberto Hernandez used “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” to create the amazingly intricate Hybrid Novels for his master’s degree project.
Noticing that most novels come without images, Hernandez took to the task of re-imagining the classic by incorporating illustration, photos and typographic elements in between the narrative, even taking an X-acto knife and glue to the text.
As Hernandez explained in an interview, the design of the book—with hidden or overlaid pages and printed on different types of paper—was appropriate for the way it matches with the detective plot of R. L. Stevenson’s novel, giving readers the feeling of true interaction with the story in a literally hands-on way.
Hernandez’s previous projects are just as smart and well-done. Check them out on his site.
University of the Arts grad Jim Tierney designed four beautiful looking Jules Verne book covers for his senior thesis project. Check out some video of the books and his personal site here.
Via Design Observer.
… is Matte Stephens! He’s working on the cover for issue 5 and I can’t wait to see it. Matte’s retro-style and colour palette is such a good fit for our magazine (and he shares a fondness for foxes). The next issue also features an extensive interview with his rep Lilla Rogers. I’d love to work with everyone in her roster!
You can visit Matte’s blog for his current work and links to his shop and exhibitions. And click here for a tour of his home and studio. See even more on Design*Sponge.
(If you’ve purchased a single copy of issue 4 and would like to start subscribing with issue 5, that option is now available in the shop! Issue 5 will be shipping in April.)
Some fantastic wine bottle labels by Tomer Hanuka, for ‘Wine by Some Young Punks’. Hanuka is based in New York and teaches at SVA.
Gillespie print
Children’s book illustrator and author Oliver Jeffers will be talking at the LCC in London on March 19…
The event is organised by the Association of Illustrators and will see New York-based Jeffers in conversation with children’s book expert Martin Salisbury. He will discuss his work in general as well as his new book The Heart and the Bottle.
From Lost and Found
From The Great Paper Caper
The event will take place at the London College of Communication at 2.30pm on March 19. Tickets can be ordered online here or by phone on 020 7324 7222.
United Airways advertising
Cover for The Heart and the Bottle
Jules Verne cover designs by Jim Tierney from Jim Tierney on Vimeo.
Illustration student Jim Tierney developed an inspiring series of book cover designs for his senior thesis project at the University of the Arts. Peak below for more:
Next week the British Library hosts an Alice in Wonderland-themed event, prior to the release of Tim Burton’s colourful take on the classic 19th century tale…
Home to the original manuscript of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, the British Library is set to stage Curiouser and Curiouser: The Genius of Alice In Wonderland next Wednesday (February 24) to celebrate the enduring appeal of Lewis Carroll’s 1862 story and the latest film version of Alice’s adventures, directed by Tim Burton, which opens in March. Tickets are still available for the event.
Cast members from the new film – Michael Sheen (White Rabbit) Matt Lucas (Tweedledum and Tweedledee) and Christopher Lee (The Jabberwock) – will be participating in the event and reading extracts from the book. There will also be an appreciation of the Alice stories by writer Will Self, a discussion with Burton’s producer Richard Zanuck and co-producer Joe Roth, and a screening of the earliest film version of the story from 1903, recently restored by the BFI and shown with a live piano accompaniment.
Prior to the event there will be a chance to visit a new display containing highlights of the British Library’s Alice material, showcasing the original manuscript – pages from which are shown here – pages from Carroll’s diaries, the Wonderland Postage Stamp-Case designed by Carroll and also illustrations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Salvador Dali.
The original Alice manuscript was hand written and illustrated by Lewis Carroll (the pseudonym chosen by mathematics don, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) in 1862.
Helen Broderick, curator of Modern Literary Manuscripts at the British Library says, “The appeal of Alice, the White Rabbit and the Mad Hatter are as strong today as ever and the British Library is delighted to be able to highlight the rich variety of Alice material that we hold dating from the story’s initial creation in the 1860s through to different translations, parodies and editions created in the 20th century by artists and writers as diverse as Salvador Dali, Mervyn Peake and Vladimir Nabokov.”
For more information on the British Libraries Alice collection go to bl.uk/alice and for details of next Wednesday’s event and to buy tickets, see the What’s On section. Disney’s Alice In Wonderland opens nationwide in 3D and 2D on March 5. To view the trailer, go here.
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