• A Smile in the Mind
• Creative Review
• New Design : London
• The Fundamentals of Illustration
• The Story of Art

Laird Borrelli

I dont know about you, but when I'm in a book shop I can spend ages, picking up, flicking through, discarding, picking up, discarding or just picking up flicking through, again and again.

When I came across this book I flicked through in curiosity.. But was instantly memorised by the sheer beauty, of its contents. Irresistible!

I spent a few minutes in awe.. So much so that I hid the book under a stack, left it for a while and came back to have another go again.. I eventually bought it and felt a little naughty for doing so!
 
This book is an exhibition of work by 40 international illustrators. Each illustrator has thier unique work displayed with minimal text, sympathetic to the piece itself. The different ways in which the human form is analysed appraised, manipulated and translated is phenomenal. Each artists interpretation of the form, space, colour, beauty, the grotesque is different and inspiring.

Finally the icing on the cake is the end of the book: where we are given biographies and a self portrait of each illustrator. Very nice!