For his second book, “A Sky Full of Kindness,” artist Rob Ryan has put his paper-cutting skills to use in a story about a pair of songbirds eagerly awaiting the hatching of their first chick. The intricate illustrations marry words with images to create a seamless tale about family, love and adventure. As the story goes, a soon-to-be mother and father anticipate their first child …
Winning Creative Review’s Best in Book category as part of their esteemed Illustration Annual 2011, designer Jason Holroyd clearly knows how to make the paper medium an enticing experience. But it was actually Holroyd’s genius music video for the Bob Dylan classic “Like A Rolling Stone” that grabbed our attention. Using an overhead projector—or as he puts it, “technology of the time”—Holroyd performs an elegant …
Published posthumously, “My Brother’s Book” is the last completed work by acclaimed “Where The Wild Things Are” author Maurice Sendak. Filled with his signature poetics and illustrations, the book is an ode to Sendak’s older brother Jack, who he credited for his love of writing.