[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-archipelago-an-atlas-of-imagined-islands":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Hey, as of this week, 70 of us have a new book out! It's called \u003Ca href=\"https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/archipelago-an-atlas-of-imagined-islands-hardcover\">\u003Ci>Archipelago: an Atlas of Imagined Islands\u003C/i>\u003C/a> and published by Thames & Hudson. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/822102_original-076d253376.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nEditor \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/polarworld\">Huw Lewis-Jones\u003C/a> approached us as illustrators with this brief: \\r\n\u003Ci>\\r\nThe commission is simple. Draw the map of an island. An island of your own imagining...\\r\n\\r\nA fantasy island. Yours to create. A heaven or hell, tropical paradise or icy waste, wild beasts, sea monsters, remarkable peoples…close by or remote, past, present, or future…whatever you fancy…perhaps a combination of all these things, who knows...\\r\n\\r\nIt is your kingdom. Your island state. Or maybe it’s an island you’ve just discovered. Really, it could be anything you like, within reason, as long as you’d be proud to see it published in this kind of special gathering. \\r\n\\r\nA simple, beautiful map of an imaginary island. \u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nSo we did! I based mine on the island of Islay where my dad grew up, but imagined a silly history for it based on animal shenanigans. While I was drawing the map, I was actually on Islay, looking out a window across a field to a massive woolly sheep who was endlessly teasing and persecuting a cow in the same field, and these ideas fell into place. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jabberworks/status/1005536466670444544\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/828734_original-5fa82d3c01.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/822406_original-4bfba657f4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/822565_original-e810ff6bcf.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more under the cut!-->\\r\nIt's a beautifully produced book, and would make a terrific gift. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/823508_original-61b50566da.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nI'm so pleased that my work's appearing alongside so many other illustrators who are big heroes of mine, including \u003Ca href=\"https://katehindley.com/\">Kate Hindley\u003C/a>: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/822845_original-3fc9a95836.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd \u003Ca href=\"http://www.nicksharratt.com/\">Nick Sharratt\u003C/a>! Find out more about this luxury volume here \u003Ca href=\"https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/archipelago-an-atlas-of-imagined-islands-hardcover\">on the Thames & Hudson website, an here's a \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jabberworks/status/1170077202911830021?s=20\">little video I made\u003C/a>, flipping through it.\u003C/a> \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/823153_original-21d9478e04.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">","2019-09-23T20:43:00.000Z","archipelago-an-atlas-of-imagined-islands",[],"archipelago: an atlas of imagined islands",1776628730326]