![]() ![]() WINNER: Gérard DuBois for The Road in Books category WINNER: Edward Kinsella for Misery won the Gold CubeĬommunication Arts Illustration Awards 2022 RUNNER-UP: Lela Harris for The Color Purple was runner-up in the Book Cover categoryģx3 International Illustration Awards 2022 WINNER: Gérard DuBois for The Road won the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Prize and Book Illustration Winner 2022 WINNER: Edward Kinsella won the Graphite Pencil for Misery in the Illustration category Dick: The Complete Short Stories in the Book Design category WINNER: The Divine Comedy won the Fine Binding & Limited Edition category WINNER: The Origins of Totalitarianism won the Scholarly, Academic & Reference Books category Dick: Selected Short Stories won the Literature category WINNER: 'The Song of Ice and Fire' series won the Brand/Series Identity category WINNER: Gérard DuBois for Blood Meridian in Books categoryīritish Book Production and Design Awards 2022 ![]() WINNER: Audrey Benjaminsen for The Turn of the Screw in Books category WINNER: Edward Kinsella for Pet Sematary won the Gold Cube AwardĬommunication Arts Illustration Awards 2023 The Folio Society was shortlisted for the Independent Publisher of the Year WINNER: Edward Kinsella for Pet Sematary won the Gold Award We had two other alternatives which were tried out, but one was too orange and the other too dark a brown.3x3 International Illustration Awards 2023 The ‘copper’ of the original design also became this rather wonderful, slightly brownish but still metallic foil in the final binding. Some of the very fine details had inevitably to be given up (in particular those of the little animal heads in the four corners), as spreading does occur during the blocking process. You can see the final binding in this post. It didn’t quite give off the fieriness of true copper, but it was serviceable enough just to give an idea of the different metallic foils to be used for the actual binding. So I mixed some antique copper powder into the gold as an expedient. I wanted to use copper gouache along with the gold and silver, but Winsor & Newton had long stopped its production, and I had mislaid my sole tube of it some time ago. Gouache and ink on Havana Canson Mi-Teintes paper, approximately 325 x 245mm. But I will be visiting the exhibition itself later and will report what I can.īinding design for the limited edition of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, published by The Folio Society. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend the private view, as of course I will be at the Ink & Drink event on Thursday evening. You can see part of that piece in the slideshow here (the illustration before last). However, I’ve been informed that, ‘we were going to use the elephant’s child illustration, but to be honest we loved the depth of colour in the whale illustration – and it made such a contrast to Kipling’s own b/w illustrations which we are also showing’. I was slightly disappointed as I don’t feel it is one of my strongest for the book, and rather wished that if they did prefer the whale, they might have chosen this one with the mariner instead. In finding out more about the exhibition upon hearing the news, I did wonder whether the illustration would be that of the Elephant’s Child (as also used on the invitation above), but they had in fact chosen the one of the whale which was used for the book’s frontispiece, and which I haven’t shared here yet. I had been sent an invitation to the private view, but it must have gone astray. ![]() I’d only just learned yesterday that one of my Just So Stories illustrations is to be exhibited as part of the Picture This exhibition at the British Library. Suddenly things are happening all at once, it seems.
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