Daniel Kondo · Selected works
Picturebooks & book-object projects
Books in which image, sequence, typography, material and the act of turning the page participate in the narrative.
Original picturebooks, visual literature and collaborations with writers and musicians, created across writing, illustration and editorial design.
Selected works
Six books. Six different ways of making the page speak.
A selection of projects that represent recurring questions in Daniel Kondo’s work: how a book moves, how an image creates time, how design becomes narrative and how a reader participates in meaning.
The Big Bad Wolf with a Toothache Lobo Mau com Dor de Dente
The physical book gradually becomes the wolf’s mouth. Page turn, scale, repetition and humor make handling the object part of the story.
Eletricista Augusto Massi & Daniel Kondo
A child observes his father’s work as an electrician. Lines, points of light and empty spaces transform everyday technical gestures into visual poetry.
Refloresta Gilberto Gil & Daniel Kondo
Ecology approached through image, rhythm and imagination. A visual-poetic collaboration that asks what it might mean to reforest the way we see the world.
Sonhozzz Silvana Tavano & Daniel Kondo
A sensory journey into the territory of dreams, built through framing, cuts, pauses and page turns. Winner of the 2022 Prêmio Jabuti for Children’s Literature.
Desembarcados Guilherme Gontijo Flores & Daniel Kondo
A visual and poetic procession of extinct and disappearing beings, where naming, repetition and graphic transformation turn absence into presence.
Andar com Fé Gilberto Gil & Daniel Kondo
An iconic Brazilian song translated into image, sequence and page. Visual metamorphosis opens the lyrics to multiple readings of faith, memory and movement.
The practice
A picturebook is read with the eyes, the hands and the time between one page and the next.
Daniel Kondo works across writing, illustration and book design. Format, scale, typography, sequence, binding and page turn are considered part of the narrative vocabulary of each project.
Some books begin with an original story. Others emerge from poetry, music, ecology or collaboration. The recurring question is the same: what can a book do that another medium cannot?
More books
Selected archive & collaborations
Picturebooks, illustrated books, literary collaborations and projects developed across different periods of Daniel Kondo’s practice.
International
Publishing rights, international editions and collaborations.
Explore selected projects prepared for international publishers, translation rights and publishing partnerships.
International publishing →
Refazenda
Entregas expressas da Kiki
Florisbela
Andar com Fé
Sonhozzz
Açaí + Seca
Desembarcados
ABCXYZ
Feira Feroz
Lobo Mau com Dor de Dente
Nós a gente
Ser o que se é
Dose Única
Sítio do Picapau Amarelo
Princesa Kaguya
A Vaca foi pro brejo
Refloresta
A Mancha
Quando Curupira encontra Kappa
Eletricista
El Rojo Orgulloso
