Unseen Sketchbooks are a UK based bespoke publishing house producing limited edition books with designers, illustrators and artists. Each limited edition publication focuses on the work of a designer, artist or musician and looks at creating new and unseen work from their archives. The editions are all short print runs and often involve special print techniques, covers or prints.
Unseen Sketchbooks was set up to offer an alternative route to publishing without the constrictions of mainstream publishing.
We are interested in hearing from other designers, artists and musicians who have an archive they would like to explore as a book edition or print. Use the contact section of the website to find out more or direct message on Instagram @unseensketchbooks
Humberto Cruz is an illustrator and graphic designer based in San Diego, CA. He was born in Salinas, California and was raised in Tijuana, Mexico. Influenced by pop culture, fashion and color, he describes his work as spontaneous, quirky, fun and enthusiastic. He primarily works with pastels, markers, acrylics and spray paint. He also focuses on digital media from initial concept development, to art creation.
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‘Where the sun falls to the ground’ looks at the work of Warsaw based artist Emilia Dragosz, a graduate from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Through her work she attempts to connect to a more spiritual state and explores personal relationships. Her realistic paintings, using traditional oil painting techniques on cotton or linen canvases, always start with a photograph.
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‘Everything starts in a sletchbook’ explores the work of UK artist David Shillinglaw. The very personal nature of David’s sketchbooks reveal of the sketchbook isn’t just a place to doodle, but a place to develop and nurture ideas.
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BUY THE BOOK‘Rhythm and Trace’ presents the work of French artist Benoit Sjöholm through a visual tour of his sketchbooks and finished works. The emphasis is on the rhythm and pattern of his works and the traces they leave behind.
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We have been working Jesús Cisneros on a new book exploring his sketchbooks. The book is broken into six sections, themes, series, memory, exploration, accidents and fiction. The book contains an interview with the Spanish illustrator in both English and Spanish.
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‘CHAOS/PATTERN’ is a look into the sketchbooks of Ed Merlin Murray. Limited edition lay flat bound and taped edge book with screen printed cover.
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Kessels collated a series of images as a form of digital sketchbook which have been interpreted into a new book by designer and Unseen Sketchbooks collaborator Chris Bigg.
Skotchbook by Jim Stoten, a selection of pages from his personal sketchbooks, which he keeps in his coat pocket at all times and has done for the last 10-15 years. Jim draws it in every day.
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Analogue Process is a book exploring the work of designer Chris Bigg who is known for his work for Record Label 4AD including recently working on The Breeders artwork and videos.
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