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VINTAGE MURAKAMI

Murakami’s new backlist design uses the circle as a central motif and the palette is limited to red, black and off-white. This creates a strong and consistent identity for the set. 

Murakami’s work has a sense that something has been lost or hidden, what is real and what is not. To match this playfulness for the covers, we commissioned Noma Bar, a talented Israeli-born and London-based illustrator. His powerful graphic illustrations cleverly utilise negative space concealing secondary images and illusions. Noma’s illustrations were screenprinted by hand to give them a personal and softer edge.

Noma Bar is represented by Dutch Uncle and can be found here.

Covers Illustrated by Noma Bar (except Birthday Stories and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman).

These are very nice. Simple, but I love the hidden imagery in the negative space.
I’ve wanted to pick up and read a Murakami book for a while now and I think this has inspired me to do so. 

Ordered Don’t Put Me In, Coach by Mark Titus last week and have already finished it. It carried on the tell-all nature, the antics, and Mark’s humour that I loved about his Club Trillion blog. Definitely worth the read. 

I’m only about half way through this book, but already it is one of the most insightful, inspirational and interesting biographies I’ve ever read. 

..but then again you expect nothing less when the subject is Steve Jobs.