Daniel
Kondo.
Daniel Kondo creates picturebooks and visual narratives in which image, sequence, typography, material and the physical form of the book participate in storytelling.
Writing, illustration and design belong to the same book.
Kondo works across picturebooks, illustration, editorial design and visual storytelling. His books are conceived as complete narrative objects, with meaning built through words, images, space, rhythm and the turning of pages.
Books as narrative systems.
Daniel Kondo works across picturebooks, illustration, editorial design and visual storytelling. His books are conceived as complete narrative objects, with meaning built through the relationship between words, images, space, rhythm and the turning of pages.
His practice moves between original stories and collaborations with writers, poets and musicians. Projects have connected literature with music, ecology, education and contemporary visual culture, including collaborations with Gilberto Gil, Djavan and Lulu Santos.
His books have been published in Brazil and internationally and recognized by institutions devoted to literature, illustration and editorial design.
Kondo works internationally with publishers, authors, museums, cultural institutions and educational organizations.
The physical book carries meaning.
Picturebooks
Narrative through image, silence, sequence, humor and the reader’s participation in constructing meaning.
Book-object &
editorial design
Scale, paper, typography, binding and page turn treated as part of the narrative vocabulary of a book.
Collaboration &
visual culture
Literature in dialogue with music, environmental questions, education and contemporary graphic culture.
The White Ravens.
Daniel Kondo’s bibliography includes two books selected for The White Ravens, the international children’s and youth literature catalogue of the International Youth Library in Munich.
Books that mark different moments of the practice.
The Big Bad Wolf with a Toothache
Lobo Mau com Dor de Dente · Daniel Kondo
A vertical book-object in which page turns progressively transform the book itself into the wolf’s mouth.
Eletricista
Augusto Massi + Daniel Kondo
Poetry, metallic inks, light and geometric form turn the everyday work of an electrician into visual narrative.
Refloresta
Gilberto Gil + Daniel Kondo
An environmental song translated into image, rhythm and a visual reflection on our relationship with the natural world.
Sonhozzz
Silvana Tavano + Daniel Kondo
A book about dreams, images and associations, built through sequence, framing, pauses and the rhythm of the page. Winner of the 2022 Prêmio Jabuti for Children’s Literature.
Literature, illustration and editorial design.
Books crossing languages and borders.
Selected projects are presented for international publishers, translation rights, co-editions, exhibitions and cultural partnerships.
Contact Kondo Estudio.
Publishing, international rights, exhibitions and cultural collaborations.
comunica@kondoestudio.com