Buxton Wood · Book designer

In my craft or sullen art

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

W.B. Yeats

[Artists Daily @ArtistOnThisDay]

Died on this day, October 17, 1928:
Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee (English)

Chivalry, 1885

[Anne_Liese @LieseAnne93756]

Jeremy Lipking - (1975) American realist painter

[Buxton Wood · Book designer @pencilvan]

@kendrictonn Looking forward to seeing the results, how exciting. Best of luck with it

[the pantomathwar @pantomathwar]

Dolce Far Niente (1879), John William Waterhouse

[Buxton Wood · Book designer @pencilvan]

@trad_poet For contrast, something along the lines of art by Alan Lee or Brian Froud would be much more appropriate for this material. It could be done in a more colorful register and be much more engaging for young readers. Just my opinion

[Buxton Wood · Book designer @pencilvan]

@trad_poet The compositions are interesting but they look like unfinished coloring book pages. Kids book illustrations should treat their readers with more respect imo. E.g. zoom in on the mountains on slide 1. Also, using every color in the box renders them a bit garish

[βασιλεύς. @ByzantineSpirit]

The Lion and Leopard Mosaic

c. 1st century BC – 1st century AD, discovered in the winter triclinium of the House of the Mosaic Doves, Pompeii.

[Buxton Wood · Book designer @pencilvan]

@AmanitaVirosa2 Beauteous design, nicely done!

[Samuel Moore @nivenrile]

In 2018, I needed an escape from grief. I had just lost my mother to cancer, and most things in my life seemed to be a reminder of the loss. I searched for months for a way to process my mourning in my own way.

I found it in a prolonged act of subcreation (in the vein of Tolkien and Lewis): writing a sprawling tale and drawing the world it belongs to.

Over the course of eight years, that work took a shape: a fun adventure story that grew a heart and eventually warranted the full treatment of editing, illustration, and hand-painted cover art: The Breach of Nivenrile. In 21 days, I’d like to share it with you.

[Memory Medieval @MemoryMedieval]

I an once again romanticising the Medieval Age

[Joseph Pickett 🇺🇸 @Pastpassport]

Print ads so jaw-droppingly gorgeous that 19th-century Parisians snuck out at night.....

And cut them off the walls... tucked them under an arm and hung them in the parlor.

Alphonse Mucha created his Art Nouveau beauty to sell cigarette papers in 1896.

Beauty was the selling point back in the day.

Times haven’t changed. X ads need Mucha's taste.

Which old ad would you hang in your parlor?

Full Mucha video drops later today.

[Ozymandias𓆏 @0zmnds]

Otto Greiner

[Buxton Wood · Book designer @pencilvan]

@Pergament_F Well said. I appreciate your position on this topic and how you’ve articulated it here. Thanks for your efforts and sharing

[Emily Ross @emilyjaneross]

Gosh the paper quality of @WorksInProgMag has really levelled up. And whoever's on design and layout over there, take a bow. It's the small design details that you notice as you read that makes the experience so joyful. ❤️

[Classical Odyssey @Rux_Dacoromana]

A study of two Polish gentlemen

[Artists Daily @ArtistOnThisDay]

Died on this day, October 17, 1928:
Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee (English)

The Two Crowns (detail), 1900
The knight gazes at the crucifix, lost in thought. Jesus's crown of thorns contrasts sharply with the golden, richly adorned crown worn by this figure.

[Buxton Wood · Book designer @pencilvan]

@populusaigeiros Right down there with dog-walkers. Sorry, professional pet-sitters

[Michel Lara @VeraCausa9]

Epigraphs from Lost Books

Century-old books
are palimpsests
of ghostly readers