A picturebook begins long before an image is placed on a page.
Format, scale, typography, paper, printing, binding,
sequence and page turns are not neutral decisions.
They shape how a story moves, how long an image lasts
and what the reader discovers next.
In these notes, Daniel Kondo looks at books from inside
the making process: references, visual systems, production
choices, experiments and the relationship between image,
rhythm and physical form.
It is a space for thinking about the picturebook as an object
that is read with the eyes, the hands and time — extending
the practice behind his
picturebooks and book-object projects
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