illustrations
from cradle to war
- Japanese Asa-No-Ha Toji binding method
- hand drawn illustrations, die-cut cover
- 9 in x 7 in, 15 pages
- Concordia University, Montréal, Canada. 2014.
From Cradle to War is a book that informs about child soldiers. It is hand bound and made with hand drawn illustrations and a die-cut cover. Its container is a handmade fabric bag that has stencil prints. The hand drawn illustrations of child soldiers are placed on top of military textured backgrounds. The bear die-cut represents the toys they never had, whereas the army bag represents the school bag they never had.
Furthermore, this bag is made out of fabric on which I wrote and hand printed with acrylic white and red paint respectively. The typefaces Stencil and Helvetica were used.
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