This Folio Life: A Diary of Engraving Maigret
It can be easy to forget just how much work our illustrators put into our editions. We exclaim over the stunning final results, but the ...
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This Folio Life: Researching Horatio Hornblower
Joe McLaren, working in consultation with Brian Lavery, former curator of Maritime History at the National Museum, Greenwich, created a series of characterful illustrations that ...
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This Folio Life: Stepping Back in Time for a Modern Binding
Raquel Leis Allion has been Art Director at the Folio Society for nearly four years. It’s her to job to commission illustrators and that means ...
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This Folio Life: When Maths and Illustration Collide
Raquel Leis Allion has been Art Director at the Folio Society for nearly four years. It’s her to job to commission illustrators and that means ...
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This Folio Life: Getting the details right in Hide My Eyes
Choosing the right illustrator for a commission is only half the story. Though we may appear to have found the perfect match of visual tone ...
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This Folio Life: A blog 65 million years in the making
We asked American palaeontologist Steve Brusatte to ensure that the illustrations for Folio’s edition were as accurate as they could be while still reflecting the world of Crichton's Jurassic Park. Here, Steve talks us through this process.
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This Folio Life: Revisiting John Burningham’s classic illustrations
This time last year I was enormously fortunate to go to the house of Helen Oxenbury, one of my favourite children’s authors and illustrators, and the widow of John Burningham.
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This Folio Life: Illustrating Winston Churchill
“With most book covers, you're trying to convey a concept rather than a person, but this was the opposite,” says illustrator Peter Strain.