Thanks to the amazing DAVID ASTLE for launching our new titles,
Letters From Melbourne and Alphabet City Zoo. Great people, and delish food from Jacques Reymond.
"Maree has created this alphabetic aesthetic.
It's a really exciting thing for getting kids involved with design, for getting kids involved with literacy, for converting literacy to creativity, its this beautiful fusion which Maree does find in all her projects, this fusion of ideas. Now we have the sculpture of monkeys and the Manchester Unity building all dressed up as letters.
She has this ability to convert what you see in front of you into this melange of letters from Luna Park to Ned Kelly; from giraffe to hippo.
This is what these books do - they play with letters as if they were shapes, as if they had their own biographies and back-stories.
This is the secret of the alphabet that Maree is finding out.
What these books do is translates Maree's gift - the flair of typography, graphic design, with the sass and seduction of advertising...Maree is many things, writer designer artist, and to that list we can now officially add: Alphabet Sculptor. - DAVID ASTLE |
