Purrshow album is launched…

Soren Munk’s new album is now out. We designed the package with photographs by Alex Bruel Flagstad and Soren Munk, and the Navarino Records branding illustration was from Lauren Child. The print and mastering was handled by Caspar at Gearbox records, London.

Album launch at Water Rats, London, April 19th. A good time was had by all.

My Dog, Hen is my new book…

My new picture book My Dog, Hen (Prestel Books) is out in autumn. There’s a lot of drawings of the dog, but mainly furniture and interiors and Hen’s family. You don’t need to like dogs to enjoy this book, but it helps. Some people are cat people, that’s for sure.

An early rough from My Dog. Hen.

Watch a short film about making My Dog, Hen.

A dune a day…

“Bribie Island : Primary vegetation, such as grasses and creepers found in the incipient dune, can trap sand to build up dunes and reduce the extent of beach erosion.”

ink and brush and graphite and seawatercolour. Sans spectacles. 14:00-14:20.

New Clarice Bean publicity films…

I recently made a series of 12 short publicity films for the release of Lauren Child’s new Clarice Bean book “Think Like An Elf”. Each film has an extract from the book read by Flora and a part where Lauren shares her own thoughts about the book and how she wrote and illustrated it.

Lauren will publish them on her Instagram @laurenchildthatsme leading up to Christmas.

You can see the first film here.

Photo: A copy of Clarice Bean Think Like An Elf flagged by the author with notes for the 12 short films. Illustration © Lauren Child 2021.

New typesetting of Pippi Longstocking…

I was pleased to see a copy of the new Pippi Longstocking illustrated by Lauren Child. This 75th Anniversary of Pippi edition has a new jacket and the text is a new setting (using the new translation by Susan Beard).

We did the first edition way back in 2007, before Twitter. This new English translation required typesetting the text anew, and although the illustrations are as are included in the 2007 edition, some have been repositioned to help suit the new typesetting. Lauren’s pictures look superb and I was happy to look at the title again from the perspective of the second book in what is now a companion title to Pippi Longstocking Goes Aboard (published in 2020).

The illustrations are integrated with the type throughout, so as usual, it’s a mission to make them fall where required through the running text. A good example is the torchlight spread. The preceding text in the book has to stop on the previous spread’s right hand page, and with a different translation, it meant the space the text occupies is different.

We used a neon spot ink on the jacket (as on Pippi Goes Aboard), and the woodfree paper makes Lauren’s artwork look very fine.

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Companion titles: the original Pippi Longstocking and Pippi Goes Aboard.

Companion titles: the original Pippi Longstocking and Pippi Goes Aboard.