The following post was commissioned by Picador as a part of their 40 year anniversary. You will no-doubt know I was their long-standing art director so I cut the introduction. Picador asked me to recount the process of this specific jacket design.
A very sad message landed on Sunday’s doorstep. “The Nobel prizewinning author Gabriel García Márquez is suffering from senile dementia and can no longer write, his brother has revealed.”
A headline on the BBC website caught my eye:
“A secretly filmed adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children has finished shooting in Sri Lanka.”
This week I overheard two boys, about 8 years old, at the magazines section of WHSmith. One asked the other if he read comics. “Back in the day.” was the reply.
Eye, and a contributing editor and columnist of Print (magazine). The exhibition, at The Morovian Gallery, forms part of the 24th Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2010, Czech Republic.
If you delight in the strange, as I do, I recommend the catalogue.
