I Am a Bird of the Heavenly Garden
Hayv Kahraman was born in Baghdad in 1981 and currently lives and works in the US. She is a graduate of the Academia di Arte e Design di Firenze in…
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Will Schofield
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Will Schofield is the editor of 50 Watts (original name: A Journey Round My Skull) and Writers No One Reads.
Under the Indigo Dome
I found Ala Ebtekar‘s incredible art through the website of Michael Bartalos. Ala kindly agreed to share his work. About “Zire Gonbade Kabood,” Ala told me that it features the…
L’Abbé de l’Abbaye
Alexander Alexeieff‘s 1927 illustrations for Jean Genbach’s L’Abbé de l’Abbaye:
Vintage Book Design in Poland
I had major help for this fourth post of Polish book covers: I pulled some from the book collection of my friends at hipopotam and some from a Polish antiquarian…
Basic Phrenology
Jiří Šalamoun is a “Czech artist, graphic designer, and illustrator (b.1935, Prague), who specializes in book illustration, cinema poster design, typography, chromolithography, and silk-screen printing.”
Eraserhead vs. Protractorhead
This 1971 book by Kiyoshi Awazu was going to be part of a larger post of Japanese graphic design… until I admitted to myself that it is the best thing…
2009 Over and Out
These images come from Maria Rosa: Everyday Fun and Carnival Frolic with Children in Brazil by Vera Kelsey, illustrated by the Brazilian artist Candido Portinari. I’m working with a 1942…
The Swamp Ladies of Estonia
Putting together this post of Estonian children’s books, I found myself squirming with delight and confusion. I hope something similar happens to you when scrolling through it!
Dressing the Yellow Chicken
Most of these images are lantern slides, and all were found at the flickr page of the Oregon State University Archives:
Apes on a Horse and More Toys from the Void
“An Ulm engraving of the year 1470 displays a horse and two apes joined together in the middle by a bar and fastened to the back of the horse by…
The Animals Are in Cages
Illustrations by Adolf Hoffmeister for his own The Animals Are in Cages, published by Greenberg in 1941. The Bodley Head issued the book in the UK as The Unwilling Tourist.…
Mummy Was a Robot, Daddy Was a Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil
Illustrations by E. Benyaminson for Hello, I’m Robot! by Stanislav Zigunenko (Russia, 1989). This is the first post of a series featuring my recently-acquired collection of Soviet children’s books from…