The Other Side
Chronicle Books, 2007
Description
In The Other Side, artist, designer, provocateur Istvan Banyai takes readers on an exceptional visual journey, challenging both children and adults alike. In graphically stunning illustrations that feature many clever twists in point of view, familiar scenes turn and turn again to show us the back, the front, the top, the bottom, the opposite, the other side of each perspective. Here’s a door. What’s on the other side? Here’s a shoreline. What’s on the other side? Here’s a curtain. What’s on the other side? The answers may surprise you. Delightful, sly, funny and challenging, The Other Side will make readers want to look and think twice.
Istvan Banyai, the acclaimed Hungarian-born creator of Zoom and Re-Zoom, and the illustrator of several other books for children, is also well known for his editorial illustrations, which have been published in The New Yorker and Rolling Stone, among other journals. His perspective, always unexpected (sometimes even to him), has made him one of the most original and iconoclastic illustrators today. He lives in New York and Connecticut.
Juror Notes
Quirky, engaging, inventive and a lot of fun.
Credits
- Design firm
- Chronicle Books
- Art director
- Sara Gillingham
- Designers
- Istvan Banyai, Sara Gillingham
- Jacket designers
- Istvan Banyai, Sara Gillingham
- Illustrator
- Istvan Banyai
- Production coordinator
- Shona Burns
- Author
- Istvan Banyai
- Editor
- Victoria Rock
- Trim size
- 7.25 x 9.875 inches
- Pages
- 48
- Quantity printed
- 15,000
- Typefaces
- HTF Didot, Reinert Upright
- Printer
- South Sea International Press Ltd.
- Jacket printer
- South Sea International Press Ltd.
- Papers
- Art paper, 157 gsm, matte (text), 157 gsm, glossy (jacket)
- Binding
- Smyth sewn
- Publisher
- Chronicle Books