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Ultimate Weird But True is the next installment in National Geographic Kids Weird But True franchise, which started as a popular feature in National Geographic Kids—the nation’s top-selling children’s magazine—and then grew into the blockbuster Weird But True paperback series. Now Ultimate Weird But True gives kids a super-sized hardcover book that they’ll pore over for months and return to for years to come.”

Dawn recently lent an invaluable assist on National Geographic Kids’ Ultimate Weird but Trueout now. Working with NGK’s arsenal of top talent, Dawn teamed up in the layout and design of multiple chapters for “a bold, colorful design and a heavy dose of visual humor.”


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From Interstellar: Friends of the Syd Barrett Fund:

“I have written a children’s book about a day in the life of Syd Barrett. The story combines the whimsy that was ever-present in Syd’s songs, as well as the struggle that comes from having too many possibilities from which to choose; a situation that both children and adults can relate to.

I wrote/illustrated the story as part of a course in my degree program during college. Upon completion of the project, I submitted the completed book to Syd’s sister, Rosemary Breen, to seek her approval for publishing. I suggested that a portion of the proceeds from book sales be used to benefit the charitable organization Escape Artists, who have been running arts projects that improve standards of mental wellbeing for over a decade.”

:: More at Interstellar

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The Sketchbook Project

It’s like a concert tour but with sketchbooks.

Thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they make their way on tour across the country.

After the tour, all sketchbooks will enter into the permanent collection of The Brooklyn Art Library, where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view.

Anyone – from anywhere in the world – can be a part of the project.

This sounds very cool. In fact, the instigator, Art House Co-op, sounds even cooler … doing all kinds of wonderful things. This sort of reminded me of another project that was passed onto me some time ago. But cool is cool. Or at least real cool is once you strip out the winking irony … it’s called Look-at-Book and I urge you to do so …

Look-at-Book

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Just wrapped up Re-Make/Re-Model: Becoming Roxy Music, by Michael Bracewell. If you’re a Roxy fan and looking for a tell-all on what went on underneath Eno’s feather collar, this isn’t it. Rather it’s a fascinating, and somewhat exhausting, treatise on what was going down in U.K. art schools and the birth and burdgeoning of the Pop art scene with the likes of Richard Hamilton and Mark Lancaster. I kept waiting for all the dirt on Roxy, but what you get is a compelling read on all the ingredients boiling in the pot, soon to boil over, that gave birth to what was arguably the first rock band as an art project.

A great read for any music, and Pop art, fan.

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