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Autumn 2013 catalogue

By Toby | Published: June 7, 2013

Thames & Hudson’s Autumn 2013 catalogue is bursting with exciting new titles such as 100 Works of Art That Will Define Our Age, a daring yet convincing analysis of 100 artworks that are destined to stand the test of time; The World According to Karl, the ultimate repertoire of wit and wisdom from fashion’s sharpest [...]

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Animation straight from the sketchbook

By Toby | Published: April 10, 2013

The forthcoming title Animation Sketchbooks takes readers inside the private sketchbooks of some of the world’s most inventive, innovative and admired contemporary animators. In this article, author Laura Heit profiles a selection of artists from the book and reveals the final fruits of their work. ‘It is a rare thing that you get to see [...]

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A Reading of Cinderella (video)

By Toby | Published: November 30, 2012

Here’s something for bedtimes – a retelling of the classic fairytale story of Cinderella from our new book The Fairytale Princess, with illustrations by Su Blackwell and retellings by Wendy Jones. To see Su Blackwell’s paper sculptures in real life, visit her exhibition at Anthropologie in London. For more information about The Fairytale Princess, click [...]

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Fit Men Wanted!

By Toby | Published: August 31, 2012

Our new publication, Fit Men Wanted – Original Posters from the Home Front, showcases a selection of Britain’s wartime posters from the Imperial War Museums’ collection of over 30,000 – posters which exhorted citizens to do their bit for the war effort with proclamations that today seem charmingly innocent, quintessentially British, and often very funny. [...]

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Handmade Type Workshop – Natsuki Otani Q&A

By Belinda | Published: August 5, 2011

Next in our series of Handmade Type Workshop contributor interviews is Natsuki Otani – a young Tokyo-born illustrator (and editor of Illustration Rally) who works with ink to create beautiful and bold freehand type styles. What led you to making ‘handmade type’? Working by hand is more natural to me, my illustration is mostly hand [...]