Thursday, December 21, 2006

Creatures Great and Small

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I got this book mostly for the textures, but the poems are pretty good too. In doing a little research on the illustrator, Marcello Minale, I found he was stabbed to death in 2001. From the BBC:
Former Olympic rower and renowned designer, Marcello Minale, 58, died after being stabbed following an argument on Saturday in the car park of the Montauroux rowing club in southern France.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1097133.stm

Click the camel to see the whole set on flickr

1 comment:

Eric Dyck said...

It used to be that art was a positive diversion to keep people from getting mixed up in drugs, gangs, and rowing clubs...er...um...