Press & media
Daniel Kondo
in the press.
Critical writing, interviews and selected coverage around Daniel Kondo’s picturebooks, visual narratives, book design and collaborations.
International feature.
Critical writing & conversations.
The books discussed as literature, image and form: readings of visual narrative, materiality, illustration, design and the physical experience of reading.
Entrar en la boca
Guilherme Gontijo Flores reads Lobo Mau com Dor de Dente through the gesture of opening the book, its vertical format and the moment in which the object itself becomes the wolf’s mouth.
Um lobo com fome de literatura
Dirce Waltrick do Amarante examines how the graphic project carries part of the story deliberately left outside the written text.
Um eletricista contra a corrente
A critical reading of Eletricista as a technically sophisticated picturebook in which text, image, metallic inks, neon color and book design operate as a single narrative system.
Curto-circuito às avessas
Mário Alex Rosa looks closely at Eletricista, its visual construction, material choices and the relationship between electricity, affection and memory.
Augusto Massi and Daniel Kondo discuss Eletricista
A conversation about poetry, illustration, the visual construction of the book and the long creative process behind Eletricista.
O “livrokê” de Lulu Santos
Lulu Santos discusses his collaboration with Daniel Kondo and the transformation of forty years of songs into a visual and graphic object.
Major press & cultural coverage.
Selected reporting on books, collaborations, illustration projects and Daniel Kondo’s work across publishing, music and contemporary culture.
Gilberto Gil and the visual life of his songs
Folha places Kondo’s work with Gilberto Gil within a continuing series of visual interpretations — from Nós, a Gente and Andar com Fé to Refazenda.
“With Nature, I learned to live”
SUMAÚMA reports from Belém on the conversation between Gilberto Gil, Eliane Brum and Daniel Kondo around Refloresta, language, nature and environmental consciousness during COP30.
Onde quer que eles estejam
A series of portraits by Daniel Kondo for piauí’s memorial to seventeen lives lost in 2020, developed as an editorial narrative through image.
Saber viver
Daniel Kondo appears as guest illustrator for the annual “Os Mais Amados de SP” edition, creating its cover language and visual icons.
Esopo Fabuloso
Folhinha publishes four previously unseen fables and illustrations from Daniel Kondo’s contemporary reinvention of Aesop.
Refazenda becomes a book
Coverage of the illustrated edition built from Gilberto Gil’s 1975 song, with visual interpretation and graphic project by Daniel Kondo.
A historical landmark.
Earlier work that established an international conversation around Kondo’s approach to the book as image, object and movement.
Tchibum! · Gustavo Borges & Daniel Kondo · Cosac Naify
The book as image,
object and movement.
Tchibum!, a wordless picturebook developed with Olympic swimmer Gustavo Borges, received a BolognaRagazzi Award New Horizons Mention in 2010.
Bologna’s historical archive highlights the book’s playful relation to the art book, its Pop Art references and the cinematic mobility created by its pages. Contemporary Brazilian press also reported the international recognition when the award was announced.
From the coverage back to the books.
Reviews and reporting are connected to the works themselves: books, visual research, awards, editions and project archives.
Press resources.
Biography · covers · images · information
Press materials, biographies, high-resolution images, book covers, technical information, review copies and interview requests.
Author · illustrator · book designer
Brazil · Punta del Este, Uruguay