Back from working on Frozen Hell! The books extraordinary production has all been finalised and is being shot in preparation for the launch which is coming very soon. It has, as all craft does, taken much longer than we anticipated. We have always wanted to create art led books, with both Lyra and Arete, and create books which push the usual boundaries in both letterpress (our Coraline has proved that we can make contemporary design work with letterpress techniques that are very old) and book making (Frozen Hell has tabbing and foldouts that have proven very complex, all done to present the art in a stunning fashion .The Roman edition, our version of the classic Lettered Editions, is HUGE! The foldout plates are nearly a metre long or three feet wide, when opened!! Virtually the size of the originals. The Here is an art drop, not of the scale of the foldouts it’s single page plate but….it’s…
THE THING! FROM ANOTHER PLANET!
You can see Greg’s development of the idea and painting, I do love being able to see his creation as he makes the oil painting, something I get to look at and thought I’d share with you.
