Each of our limited edition publications focuses on the work of a designer, artist or musician, creating new books from unseen and archival work. If you have an archive or know of one which might be suitable for publication then please get in touch.
The Ditchling Fable Book is a definitive collection of illustrator John Vernon Lord’s observational drawings of his home village. The illustrations in the book have appeared in a range of publications, advertising and more local settings, including village fetes and events.
The book comes boxed with a additional screen prints.
The Rules of Grafik Design + Creativity is an archival book that David Carson had been working on from 2003 – 2009. Carson didn’t work on the book for that entire period, it isn’t a book that took eight years to make – rather it is scrap book, or record of eight years of Carson’s practice. This book joins a wealth of Carson publications and is an important part of Graphic Design history.
Random Notes about Doodling, Sketching, Drawing and Illustrating looks at the works and private sketchbooks of acclaimed illustrator, John Vernon Lord.
With works from the 1950’s to 2023, this publication represents the most comprehensive range of work from Lord.
Let’s get shitfaced, it’s free is an experiment between artist Erik Kessels and designer Chris Bigg. The book is a series of photographic records, which were Kessels response to the notion of a sketchbook, a collection of ideas. These in turn have been interpreted by Chris Bigg into a new piece of work in the form of a visual journey exploring connections of images, themes, colour and texture.
Art Star by Humberto Cruz is the second book Unseen Sketchbooks have undertaken with this San Diego based illustrator. Rich in cultural references and experimentation this volume further explores the illustrators practice.
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.
Super Road is 98 pages of the things that preoccupy and interest Jim. Contemporary and historical references abound including: Big Foot, Superman, Ancient Egypt, Dalmatian dogs, imagined robots, the circus, tigers, puzzles, patterns, faces, Michael Mouse, a man who tells lies, hats, DADA, Fred Astaire, mountains, Cambell’s Soup Cans, Sgt. Pepper, guitars, Elvis, Laurel and Hardy, Chico, Groucho, Harpo and Karl to name but a few.
Below is an archive of our previous publications that are now sold out.
Six/Seis explores the work and sketchbooks of Spanish illustrator Jesus Cisneros. The book is broken into six sections: Themes, Series, Memory, Exploration, Accidents and Fiction. This illustration book contains a series of interviews with Jesús in both English and Spanish.
Jesús actively uses his sketchbook as a way of exploring themes including nature, animals and the human body. Notions of the mythical and imaginary are recurrent themes in his work.
The use of folklore imagery and different drawing styles and techniques are explored in this dual language book.
‘Everything starts in a sketchbook’ 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. Working seamlessly between image and typography David’s work is simultaneously detailed and engaging.
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Warsaw based artist Emilia Dragosz graduated 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 relationships. Her realistic paintings, using traditional oil painting techniques on cotton or linen canvases, always start with a photograph. ‘Where the sun falls to the ground’ explores this intimate process of working.
Introduction by Maria Joanna Juchnowska (curator, designer and artist)
interview
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.
Lemile Magazine Interview
Analogue Process by Chris Big was one of our first publications under the umbrella of Unseen Sketchbooks.
Focused on the Designer Chris Bigg who is known for his work for Record Label 4AD, working with The Pixies and more recently working on The Breeders artwork and videos.
Within our publications we use a lot of process including screen-printing, foil blocking, special binding techniques and heat pressing. Process is at the heart of what we do and this makes our publications unique and collectable. Publications are often launched in a special collectors edition first and then in standard format. We like to explore process within our publications and often work with the artist or designer directly on this.
We are busy compiling a book on the archives of Bush Hollyhead. Some images of Bush’s sketchbook below…
We stock a small selection of books by Corners of South Korea.
Rainbow One features brightly coloured paper, no text, to create an immersive reading experience.
Sarah Boris is a London-based artist and designer working in silkscreen, sculpture, book and letterpress. Her works explore political and social issues while exploiting printing and design processes.
Rainbow Two features neon coloured paper, no text, to create an immersive reading experience. This builds on the colours used in the original Rainbow One.
Sarah Boris is a London-based artist and designer working in silkscreen, sculpture, book and letterpress. Her works explore political and social issues while also exploring and exploiting printing and design processes.
And There Will Be Dogs (2nd Edition) by Jochen Shievink is a Risograph book and A2 print published by Corners in 2022.
The edition is written and illustrated by German based Jochen Shievink features a series of ‘human-based’ scenarios replaced with dogs. Be it riding a bike, attending an art class, going to the therapist or having your fortune read. These re-imaginings remind us of the sometimes senseless preoccupations we have.
Along side our standard publications we also do special editions and one-offs. We worked with collaborator, Jesús Cisnero on a special edition, Apuntes sobre las marionetas (Notes on puppets) for the Frankfurt Book Fair
Apuntes sobre las marionetas (Notes on puppets) explores the work of Spanish illustrator Jesús Cisneros. Imaginary puppets are explored through sketchbooks, artworks and writing by the illustrator in both Spanish and English.
The edition is hand-bound using a French Loop stitch. This allows the edition to lie totally flat when opened. The covers to each edition vary. Shown are ones created as an edition of 10 for the Frankfurt Book Fair, who had Spain as the guest nation.
