Harnessing familiar images like these allows our followers to analogize. For these, we explain concepts in sexuality and gender using wildly unrelated visuals-The Periodic Table of Elements the roots, stem, and buds of a weed even a cheeseburger.
Last spring, I designed a series of infographic-like Instagram posts for Equimundo’s brand-new Many Ways of Being curriculum, an evolution of Manhood 2.0 and Sisterhood 2.0. For my work especially, that means the occasional lean-in to the playful, outrageous, and make-believe-creating brands, products, campaigns, and other things of all varieties that are just a little bit wild.
Halloween aside, I try, as best I can, to summon some of this energy all year long. Me this year? I was Max- just a boy pretending to be a wolf pretending to be a king from Where the Wild Things Are. An indulgence of childlike wonder and imagination, so much of it appeals to the designer-in-me: gritty fabrication, boundless vision, and the audacity to ask “what if?” A constructed dream state required yearly to process the weight of the waking hours, at its core is a ceremony in its truest sense-ancient, necessary, collective, and even solemn.Īnother Halloween, here and gone. Halloween is one of my favorite celebrations. Basis for the 2009 film directed by Spike Jonze starring Max Records and features the voices of James Gandolfini, Paul Dano, Lauren Ambrose, Forest Whitaker, Catherine O'Hara, and Chris Cooper.Hat very night in Max’s room a forest grew and grew-and grew until his ceiling hung with vines and the walls became the world all around.” -Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are The book was awarded the 1964 Caldecott Medal by the American Library Association" (NYPL Books of the Century 212). Reaching back into his own Brooklyn childhood, Sendak created the enduring child-hero Max, who overcomes his fears and achieves catharsis in a colorful fantasy tableau. "Wild Things!' When Max's sojourn among them unfolded in kinematic splendor in 1963, adults trembled and children reveled. Hailed as "the Picasso of children's books," Maurice Sendak produced more than 85 books, of which Where the Wild Things Are is undeniably the most famous, being one of the ten best-selling children's books of all time. An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
This is the correct first state of the dust jacket with no mention of the Caldecott award, and a $3.50 price at top of front flap. Near fine in a near fine first-issue dust jacket. Boldly signed by Maurice Sendak on the half-title page. Oblong quarto, original cloth backed pictorial paper boards. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963.įirst edition in the first-issue dust jacket of one of the scarcest and most desirable books in modern children’s literature.
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