How to Say Goodbye is a love letter to the glorious heyday of illustrated book covers. Back in the Victorian age, books were mostly bound between slabs of monochromatic cardboard. But between the start of the 20th century and the late 1960s, there was a fantastic surge of creativity as artists explored different ways of brightening up the hitherto drab world of publication. Illustrators like Tomi Ungerer and Hans Tisdall became famous for their strange, often wild, cover art, and publishers would clamour to have them design the cover of their latest book.
The printing technology available meant these artists often had only a handful of colours to work with – perhaps just three – and How to Say Goodbye faithfully replicates that distinctive look, with a limited colour palette…
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