
This Folio Life: Lela Harris on illustrating The Color Purple
We spoke to self-taught artist Lela Harris about her experience of creating her astounding artwork for The Folio Society edition of The Color Purple.
We spoke to self-taught artist Lela Harris about her experience of creating her astounding artwork for The Folio Society edition of The Color Purple.
Acclaimed artist Kristjana Williams’s fascination with maps and map-making made her the perfect partner for Folio’s edition of Jules Verne’s classic tale, Around the World in Eighty Days.
An important plot point in Stephen King’s brilliantly unsettling thriller Misery involves a specific typewriter with a missing key. When crafting the stylish new Folio edition, our Senior Designer Charlotte turned detective in her quest to source the typewriter and research historically accurate fonts.
Dystopian fiction has rarely been more popular. So why now? And what can that popularity tell us about the dark side of human nature?
Documenting and exposing the cruelty of apartheid was a dangerous task. Folio’s edition of Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom features the work of some of the most inspiring photographers of the time, who risked their lives for the iconic images they captured.