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Book cover for book edition of Arthur Rimbaud. Done as school work using real paint splatters (it was fun :)
Book design for the AOI Images 31. Best of British Illustration 2007.
Design & Artwork: Simon Sharville
Illustration: Andy Smith
© 2007 SImon Sharville / AOI
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This is a 100-page art cookbook I
designed for the Cooperstown Art
Association. It consists of recipes used
at receptions at the gallery, recipes from
local artists, and artwork from those
artists. It is organized and embellished by
my original vector artwork rendered in
Adobe Illustrator. In addition to creating
all the design elements throughout, I
arranged and color corrected all the
artists’ work. Here you will find several
sample pages including the front and back
covers. It was my intention to convey
creativity and tastefulness at the same
time.
How can research findings, personal experiences, and complex ideas be translated into a concise visual identity?
45 Symbols—Clay to Code examines how emerging artists and designers develop systematic approaches to a visual language, inspired by one of the most enigmatic objects in media history: the 3,700-year-old, still-undeciphered Phaistos Disc, embossed with 45 distinct symbols. The works present a range from personal narratives to global themes and demonstrate how an original visual grammar can be constructed.
Over more than a decade, the internationally hosted design seminar series The Phaistos Project—Forty-five Symbols have evolved into a global community—driven by open calls, workshops, exhibitions, and risograph publications. This volume, 45 Symbols—Clay to Code, brings together over 2,000 symbols as the result of this collaborative endeavor. It stands not only as a living archive of research inquiries but also as a testament to collective experimentation, bold visions, and the expression of intercultural dialogue.
The contributions are organized into five thematic fields:
I. Traces of everyday life, material culture, and the domestic archive
II. Planetary surfaces, landscape as archive, and the ecological memory of the Anthropocene
III. Politics of language, symbols of protest, and collective transformation
IV. Cultural scripts, spiritual codes, and visual identity
V. Speculative alphabets, linguistic flux, and future archives
This book aims to both inspire and provide hands-on methods for developing skills in visual storytelling, documentation, and reflection practice that foster authentic, systematic, and distinctive personal outcomes.
Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Editors & Design: Olivier Arcioli, Pascal Glissmann, Andreas Henrich
Release: January 2026
Format: 21 × 28 cm
Volume: 320 pages
Language: English
Printing: offset printing
Paper: Munken Print White, 115 g/sm
Workmanship: Softcover, Swiss brochure with flaps, thread stitching, black thread, foil lamination
Book Plates have historically been used to denote ownership of books. They would be printed and then placed inside the covers with the owner's name on them so that when people borrowed books they would know who to return it to. These were commonly used before the 20th century when books were much more expensive to manufacture and purchase. Mine is based on Penrose Tilings, a non-repeating tessellating pattern I'm rather fond of. It gives the piece a look of stained glass windows. I left the bottom open for my name and the 'Ex Libris' or 'from the library of'.
Updated and edited by Kristen Harrison for Guardian Books. Artypeeps also managed the typesetting while the cover design was done by Two Associates.