Picture book - Cats and Bats and Things with Wings
These days, I'm obsessed with picture books without any particular reason.
This is a picture book of animals illustrated by Milton Glaser, a member who founded a design team called Pushun Studio, which has become very popular in graphic design universe since 1970s. The studio has led wide range of innovative artwork from advertising, animation, record jackets and book covers.
In Cats and Bats and Things with Wings, animals such as crocodile, frog, crab and octopus appear in different illustration styles. Some pages are vivid and colourful, while others are black-and-white line drawing based or trick pages filled with illusions. The book is an outstanding quality piece of work with amazing editorial flavour and the unique poem. It is an art that goes beyond the boundaries of picture book or design which inspires you with its free-spirited creativity. Encounter with such work fills me with joy and excitement as well as some sort of unexplainable jealous. Maybe I am obsessed with picture books with the hope of encountering this kind of mixed feeling of surprise after all.

