Thursday, January 12, 2012

Daydream

One of the most fascinating books I read last year was Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. It's a strange combination of novel, poetry, and pure imagination. When I finished it, I wanted to draw every city in the book and make up a few of my own. 

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11 comments:

  1. One of my favourite books! Loved the poster.

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  2. Oh, and have you seen Nora Sturges' work on the subject? http://norasturges.com/marco-polo

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  3. I just read Invisible Cities last year, too, and I think it would be AWESOME if you tried drawing them. I'd especially like to see how you do the water pipe city. That would be cool.

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  4. I love the idea of this one. Also I like the layout of the panels.

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  5. You should read how Italo Calvino created those stories. I have a preface in my italian book which said that he keep wrote about ideas and catalague them through time, categorising everything for topics. One folder for animals, one folder for flowers, one folder for historical figures etc... and than one day he tooks all those accumulated idea and saw a common pattern. And than he made Invisible Cities, I have the exact text in italian, but I couldn't find the translation.

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  6. Marcos: those Nora Sturges paintings are incredible.

    Littlemad: sounds fascinating. i might try to track it down in an English version.

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  7. On this slide http://www.slideshare.net/littlemad on page 48, you can find the original text in italian. I hope that you find at least someone that can help you translating for you

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