This Folio Life: The challenge of illustrating The Kama Sutra
Back in 2014, when Folio art director Sheri Gee was chairing a panel discussion at the Society of Illustrators in New York, she asked the ...
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This Folio Life: Joe's blog, no. 39
I recently went down to Dartmoor to interview Alan Lee about his epic illustrations for The Wanderer and other Old English Poems. Widely regarded as ...
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This Folio Life: Dolpo, Nepal 1973 and 2016
Among the best-loved travel books ever written, The Snow Leopard has gained a reverential following among trekkers and natural history enthusiasts. In 1973, naturalist and ...
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This Folio Life: A Diary of Engraving Maigret
It can be easy to forget just how much work our illustrators put into our editions. We exclaim over the stunning final results, but the ...
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This Folio Life: Researching Horatio Hornblower
Joe McLaren, working in consultation with Brian Lavery, former curator of Maritime History at the National Museum, Greenwich, created a series of characterful illustrations that ...
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Reproducing Songs of Innocence and of Experience from the finest copy
Folio’s edition of Songs of Innocence and of Experience is reproduced from one of the finest surviving copies, known as ‘Copy W’, now held at King’s College, University of Cambridge. In this blog, Folio’s Production Director Kate Grimwade explains how she matched our edition as closely as possible to Blake’s original manuscript.
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‘These illustrations look like the inside of my own head’
In this blog, Becky Chambers, author of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, shares her reaction to seeing some of Zoë van Dijk’s vivid illustrations for the Folio edition of her incredible novel.
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Which Marvel Hero would you invite for the holidays?
Depending on your family traditions and the extent of your invites, festive dinners can either be a raucous free-for-all or a calm culinary extravaganza. But whatever the scene, every dining table would be livened up with a Marvel Super Hero. From extraordinary strength to healing potions and a magic hammer, scroll down to discover who could be tucking into turkey at your house this year.