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Article: ILLUSTRATION: Illustrated guides.
- Article from:
- Design Week
- Article date:
- February 23, 2006
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While text has been incorporated into the visual arts for years, the reverse is less common - and writers who do their own illustrations are even more rare. Jim Davies looks at a handful of innovators who have successfully crossed the line
Writers who illustrate their own work are few and far between. Writers who scoop international awards for their illustration are virtually non- existent. So when, at the end of last year, the precociously talented New Yorker Jonathan Safran Foer walked away with not only the book Illustration award, but also the overall prize at the 2005 V&A Illustration Awards, he proved himself a rare creature indeed.
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