For my taste, John Hendrix's illustrations of London succeed better than his figures, but it is a very attractive production, with clear, imaginative text.
In the voluminous body of literature that is produced in South Asian countries, in English as well as in about twenty indigenous languages, there is hardly an imaginative text that sympathetically explores the theme of homosexuality.
Mr. Wachner's "Rilke Songs," six settings of poems about animals real and legendary, showed an imaginative flair for allusive text setting, evoking a caged panther's restless stalking and contrasting a swan's clumsy gait on land with its elegance in water.
After Big Picture Press's Maps, the unexpected non-fiction star of 2013, the door has opened for many more beautiful, outsize books, whose balance of informative, well-chosen text and imaginative illustration and design makes for gorgeous objets that actually get read.
For each 112-page issue, editors/artists Brandon Graham and Emma Ríos curate substantial chunks of storytelling from their friends and peers, and the result combines the feel of a hip scene zine with the highest quality of art and imaginative storytelling, along with text pieces on comics craft and – proof that Island's guiding principles aren't particularly commercially minded – even poetry.
Through touching illustrations, which manage to be both realistic and imaginative, and a subtle, conversational text, all an older sibling's fears about the arrival of a new baby are gently explored and kindly put to rest.
There was a time when movie posters were works of fine art, marked by their edgy subject matter, imaginative design and hand-drawn text.
In its most general form, the aesthetic value puzzle is the puzzle of why texts that evoke imaginative resistance are often aesthetically compromised thereby; this puzzle is typically discussed specifically in the context of morality.
The Transition Handbook reads like an imaginative take on a corporate-management text.
The simplicity, however, was belied by Pierre Audi's insightful and imaginative stage direction; he trusted the text and the composer's dramatic sense - which some directors find it hard to do - and enhanced the narrative without distorting it.
Nor was there time for more imaginative or personally inflected interpretations of the text — the interrogation of "big ideas" that happens in the kinds of graduate seminars Moskowitz held up as a model.
