This Folio Life: Putting together an entry for the Book Illustration Competition
Art Director, Sheri Gee, guides us through the process of submitting an entry for the Book Illustration Competition. Have you ever wondered what makes a ...
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This Folio Life: George Orwell, Farmer
In one of George Orwell’s diaries, opposite the entry for 3 October 1946, there’s a rough sketch, instantly recognisable to any allotment holder or gardener ...
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This Folio Life: Celebrating The Little Prince
I had been hoping to publish a Folio edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince for years. The question was how to make it ...
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This Folio Life: Illustrating The Mark of the Horse Lord
When commissioning binding designs, we often ask our illustrators to produce an image that we can block or screen print in two or more colours ...
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This Folio Life: Folio at 70
It is always – whatever one might say to the contrary – interesting to know what one’s peers think of you. A birthday is as ...
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This Folio Life: John Le Carré and the fable of his past
John Le Carré’s extraordinary thriller A Perfect Spy is his most autobiographical work, drawing on his own early life and experiences. The result is a novel that is both a thrill ride and a moving portrayal of a life marked by subterfuge and betrayal. In this fascinating blog, Folio’s Fiction Editor Sinéad O’Callaghan explores the incredible plot and the real experiences that inspired Le Carré’s masterwork.
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This Folio Life: Judging the Folio Book Illustration Winner 2022
Having received over 650 entries from 56 countries, the four judges had quite the task to whittle the entries down to just five shortlisted artists and one winner. In this fascinating blog the judges, Art Directors Sheri Gee and Raquel Leis Allion, and teacher at the New York School of Visual Arts, Yuko Shimizu, explain what they were looking for, and how they made their selections.
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This Folio Life: Designing a binding: Behind the scenes of a book cover
London-based illustrator Yehrin Tong is a celebrated cover artist who has twice won the V&A Book Cover Illustration Award. Her distinct designs are intricate and hypnotic, with a mathematical element, making her the ideal artist to illustrate our binding for Syria: The Desert and the Sown. In this fascinating blog, Tong reveals the multi-stage process that led to the stunning finished binding.