Happy World Book Day! Since publishing Matchbloc I’ve noticed how much I enjoy a book about collections. Specifically, similar items repeated with slight differences. I’ve posted a view of my favourites below, each book features…
One year on from publishing Matchbloc the first edition of 1000 has sold out. I thought it might be nice to collate some of the coverage of the book for which we were very grateful….
MATCHBLOC the book is here! The lovely Neal Whittington from Present & Correct and I have been working on this for a little while. If you have been following our instagram account you can now…
I picked up the book ‘Eesti rahvalaule lastele’ in a second-hand shop in Estonia. It translates as ‘Bluebird, Estonian folk songs for children’ and was compiled by Ottilie Kõiva in 1971. The beautiful illustrations by…
I recently visited the island of Muhu in Estonia, home to writer Juhan Smuul. The Museum had many of his books for visitors to browse. The intriguing and unusual illustrations by Edgar Valter in ‘Die…
On a recent trip to Estonia I came across this Russian children’s book in a second hand shop. I instantly fell for the style, colours and character illustrations. Once home I discovered the book is…
After spending a year travelling the US photographing cowboys at forty five ranches in twelve states, Peter Byrne has published the book ‘This Land – Cowboys & the Landscape of the American West’. Peter held…
I met Jack and Eddy from the Modernist Magazine at a print and publishing fair, we got chatting about concrete and design and ten minutes later I was on their contributors list. For the theme…
On a recent visit to Ken Spelman I found this book ‘Zoz – A Story of Glory’ written and illustrated by Norman Mommens. The book is an edition of 200, printed and bound by the…
It’s World Book Day. I wanted to share two brilliant books about boats. One came from Mundal Norway, the other from a charity shop near our studio. Both written in 1975 and first published by AB…