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…
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…
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.”
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…
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…
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!
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.…
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…