Study Task One: Publishing and Book Design

Yusuke Oono

http://www.loftwork.com/portfolios/oonoyusuke/

These 360degree books are so wild and fun looking!! They illustrate classic stories such as 'Snow White'. When stood up the books have a 3D diorama feel about them - they're more of an art piece maybe even a sculpture - but still a book that could be 'published'. I think this still counts as Publishing and Book design it's just a vastly different take on traditional ways of illustrating a story. 

Some of the photographs I've seen of these are very beautiful and atmospheric with the right lighting too. 

Jacqui Oakley

http://jacquioakley.com

Oakley's website  features some of the clients she has worked for, which includes magazines and books. She has also done installation work and various other illustration projects, the website also features video interviews. But it appears she has done a lot of publication and book cover work

This piece is for 'The Inferno Collection' - a mystery series. 

Oakley said that since she is usually hired to create "nice" or "pretty imagery" it was refreshing to be able to draw skulls and fire!

Despite being contemporary Oakleys work has a vintage feel to it. Particularly this piece with its colour palette and textures, I think it looks pretty cool!

It's interesting to see this set of books - including cover, encasing box and inner illustrations. There's merchandising and such that comes with published stuff - limited edition collectors items and such (boxes, bookmarks, prints, other such goodies) 

Lisa Kokin

http://www.lisakokin.com/book-art-altered-one.html

Kokin's altered book art is rather fun, although I'm unsure if it would fit under the category of Publishing and Book design. Hypothetically they could be informative or humorous but they are mostly art books rather than something that could be mass produced and published - I'll include this anyway because I think it's a fun idea and there's no reason why this kind of idea couldn't be transformed into a publishable item.

(I believe Kokin may be working on some published books as there is a section on her site that is under construction!)

Camille Rose Garcia 

http://www.camillerosegarcia.com

"Garcia’s layered, broken narrative paintings of wasteland fairy tales are influenced by William Burroughs’ cut-up writings and surrealist film, as well as vintage Disney and Fleischer cartoons, acting as critical commentaries on the failures of capitalist utopias, blending nostalgic pop culture references with a satirical slant on modern society."

Garcia's work fits into publising and book design as she has done a few book cover and inner illustrations, particularly for fairytales or childrens fantasy stories - below are the covers for Cinderella and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I find her illustration work for books like this interesting as she obviously has quite a spooky and gothic style but seeing it applied to stuff usually marketed to children. It makes me wonder if these spooky illustrations are still meant to be marketed towards children or whether it's for a more adult or teenaged audience who still enjoy the stories - spicing it up with some funky illustration. 

Joe McLaren 

http://www.joemclaren.com/

This illustrator relates to publishing and book design as he does both cover art and inner illustrations for books, both fiction and non fiction and from different eras - versatile. Also editorial illustration - which links to publishing. 

I like the hand-crafted printed quality McLaren's work has. Maybe because after 504 I'm still on a bit of a printing kick! - and these look very lino/woodcut-eqsue, which half give his work a "ye olde" feel but I think the use of bold colour and composition in the imagery keep it looking contemporary. 

Creative City Guidebooks!

"These well-designed travel guides from Victionary pull together the best locales for creatives in six big cities: New York, London, Tokyo, Barcelona, Berlin, Paris. The series is called CITIx60, named for the 60 creatives who handpicked the spots highlighted in these volumes. Each are wonderfully designed and illustrated and each contains an illustrated map of the city."

Everything I included so far has been either an art book or illustration for a fiction book, so I thought I would include these illustrated travel guides. It's pretty cool and shows a different use for illustration - for a factual, informative purpose rather than just illustrating fiction.