How Ideas Are Born: Illustrators on Creative Processes

An insightful and visually rich book about illustration and the origins of creativity featuring the work of 26 illustrators along with in-depth interviews with each artist in which they discuss their ideas, inspirations and creative processes. In How Ideas Are Born, readers will find a treasure chest of images by 26 diverse illustrators from 12 different countries that the author has gathered, selected and curated for the book. The types of images and styles vary, ranging from the child-like and naive to the poignant, suggestive and truly masterly. In addition to the 270 images, the book contains 110 drawings and pages from notebooks and sketchbooks that take the reader deeper into the nature of each artist's work. The visual elements are complemented by revealing interviews with each artist in which they discuss what compelled them to become illustrators, their inspirations, and the research, methods, personal philosophies and work processes that allow them to transform a creative impulse or an emotion into an idea, and an idea into a work of art. We learn about what drives and inspires them as well as the origins of their ideas and creativity, from an innocent curiosity about shapes and colours to the desire to share something fascinating and wonderful with others in a unique and original way. ILLUSTRATORS FEATURED: ARGENTINA: IsolMisenta. BELGIUM: Tom Schamp. BRASIL: Flavio Morais. CANADA:Anita Kunz. FRANCE: Serge Bloch, Delphine Durand, Martin Jarrie, HerveTullet. IRELAND: Chris Haughton. ITALY: Simone Rea, ValerioVidali. JAPAN: Yoshiko Hada. PORTUGAL: Ana Biscaia, CarolinaCelas. SPAIN: Elisa Arguile, Pablo Auladell , Pep Carrio , JesusCisneros , Isidro Ferrer , Manuel Marsol , M.A. Perez Arteaga. SWITZERLAND:Fanny Dreyer.. USA: GaryBaseman (Los Angeles, CA), Katie Benn (San Francisco, CA), Lisa Congdon (Portland,OR), Elizabeth Haidle (Portland, OR). AUTHOR: Miguel Angel Perez Arteaga is a graphic design and communication expert and co-founder of the design studio Batidora de Ideas. Author and illustrator of twelve children's books published in Spain, Mexico and Brazil, he is also the author of the book Creatividad: curiosidad, motivacion y juego (Creativity: curiosity, motivation and play) in the series "[Re]thinking education" published by Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. He participated in the exhibitions "Ready to Read: Book design from Spain, a selection of the best books published in Spain" (New York, Washington, Mexico, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Madrid and Lisbon) and "Ilustrisimos: An overview of children and young adults' illustration in Spain" at the Bologna Book Fair. A finalist in the Daniel Gil Awards (Spain) and the Biennial of Illustration of Amarante (Portugal), he has had numerous individual and collective painting, photography and illustration exhibitions. Miguel Angel Perez Arteaga is a lecturer in the Marketing Department of the University of Zaragoza (Spain). SELLING POINTS: . A richly illustrated book which includes works from 26 outstanding illustrators from 12 different countries gathered, selected and curated based on their special qualities and distinctiveness . The book includes revealing interviews in which the artists discuss what compelled them to become illustrators, their inspirations, and the personal philosophies and creatives processes . A source of inspirtion for all professional designers and illustrators and students often unsure of how to approach and develop their production processes