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.
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This Folio Life: Mapping out a classic journey by Jules Verne
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.
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This Folio Life: Tracking down a typewriter and finding fonts for the making of Misery
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.
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This Folio Life: The dark truths within dystopian literature
Dystopian fiction has rarely been more popular. So why now? And what can that popularity tell us about the dark side of human nature?
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This Folio Life: Documenting Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom
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.