New book art coming soon...

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A walk through A Midsummer Night's Dream

For those who didn't get to see the largest concertina book I've ever created at McNaughtan's Bookshop and Gallery in Edinburgh last summer, here's a short one minute video of it from beginning to end:

A higher resolution of this video is available at https://vimeo.com/202385480.

Only seven copies of this book will be made (eight including the display copy featured in this video).

Each copy in the edition is priced at £1,950.

There are just five copies are currently available.  If you are interested in purchasing one of them, or would like to ask any questions about it, please contact me through http://joannarobsonillustration.bigcartel.com/contact

I hope you enjoy this short video and thank you for looking!

Small Nylmah booklet

A quick photo of some smaller versions of Nylmah that I'm still making.  They're printed on vellum tracing paper using a colorwave printer, which works great for this detailed illustration.  Each copy comes in an off-white dust jacket with a synopsis of the story of Nylmah on the back.

Unlike the original laser-cut book of Nylmah, they are smaller (6.5 x 17.5cm), uneditioned and are priced at £5 each (plus p&p).

Interested in buying one?  Send me an email

Nylmah - new laser cut book

Last week I finished the first copy of a new laser cut book, Nylmah, that had been a side project for some months.  The story is set in a mythical kingdom, which falls under a curse and is brought to ruin.  

There will only be thirty copies made, so if you're interested in owning one then please email me or keep an eye on my online shop - I hope to have at least one or two copies for sale online at some point in the next six weeks. 

The book can be opened and displayed like a concertina book. But the hardback covers can also be folded back on themselves and can sit under the laser cut paperwork, and the book takes on more of a sculptural look - 

Laser cut booklet

Dracula's Crossing
An illustrated cut-out of a sea voyage, based on the strange and fateful voyage of the Demeter from Varna to Whitby in Bram Stokers' Dracula.

I produced several of these in time for the Baltic Artists' Book Fair last month at Gateshead.
 
Edition of fifty, laser cut in to black plike with grey dust jacket. 

New laser cut book

 
New work - all laser cut from black plike paper

The narrative for this is based on Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, and features dozens of silhouetted characters in a city based on Edinburgh's New Town.

The book isn't yet finished, but below are some photos of the work done from yesterday's session on the laser-cutter... 

All photographs copyright to Tai Kedzierski

shadow play

soft light and hard light combined

 

Books measure 60cm by 15cm

New etched book - The Tempest

Last week I finally finished this project... some photos and scans are below:

Some of the tiny scenes from the book: