Common City Birds – the Jacky Winter Field Guide 2007
What:
Common City Birds - the Jacky Winter Field Guide 2007
Where:
Greville Street Bookstore, 145 Greville St, Prahran
Metropolis Books
Or online here (read the text, you'll know what to do)
When:
Out now (for a short while)
How much:
RRP $25
Birdwatching is an uncommon pastime amongst the young. But, nevertheless, it is a pastime with countless rewards. Sit long enough by a fencepost, for example, and you may happen upon a Jacky Winter, notable for its solitary lifestyle and cry of "Peter Peter Peter!" If time permits, you might follow this bright Australian ‘robin' to his saucer-like nest atop a forked tree branch, where his offspring - a talented roll call of local illustrators - humbly await your attention.
US ex-pat and Melbourne devotee Jeremy Wortsman has created The Jacky Winter Group, an agency that represents Australian illustration talent with the aim of connecting to an international client base. Common City Birds is the concrete assemblage of selected work from such talents as Dylan Martorell, Tin&Ed, Lachlan Conn and Fontaine Anderson.
Though it's geared towards commercial illustration, the work of the contributors swans around fine art, which makes it all the more collectible. Complete with twelve interpretations of the group's avianicon and removable pages that can be displayed on the book's own minieasel, Common City Birds is as much for the professional book lover as it is for the amateur birdwatcher. Feathered friends in fair weather forever.
Format: Book
Motivation: Pimp your coffee table
Keywords: Tin&Ed, Illustration
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