Libraryland
By Oslo Davis
Project Description
LOOK!
Libraryland! will be a limited-edition, well-designed book of drawings, sketches and illustrations done at the State Library of Victoria by me, Oslo Davis.
100% DRAWN!
Libraryland! will contain hundreds of sketches and illustrations I did at the State Library of Victoria over three months last year. Some drawings are silly-looking, some serious, some neither silly nor serious - they're just drawings! Drawings of the Library staff, people walking, talking, looking at art, readings books, tapping away on their laptops, sleeping, ascending and descending stairs - you name it! All immortalised in simple and complicated black line drawings! It won't be an art book per se, nor a book of cartoons or a graphic novel - it'll be its own thing!
SUPPORT LIBRARYLAND, AND BE REWARDED!
Right now support is needed to make Libraryland! move from a collection of drawings to a being a REAL BOOK. Help me make Libraryland, and take advantage of the REWARDS: personally signed and numbered copies of the book; actual pages of art used in Libraryland; original copies of your favourite Overheard cartoon, unframed or framed; and something called an Oslo Davis Happy Pack!
ABOUT THE BOOK!
Completely wordless: Enjoy drawings in a book without the annoying clutter of text!
Completely wordless: Enjoy drawings in a book without the annoying clutter of text!
Limited run of only 250 copies - once they're gone they're gone!
100 pages
100 pages
Includes a specially-designed dust jacket that folds out to become a poster!
Each cover contains a UNIQUE hand-drawn drawing!
Each book is signed and numbered!
Printed on 100% recycled stock!
Each cover contains a UNIQUE hand-drawn drawing!
Each book is signed and numbered!
Printed on 100% recycled stock!
Designed by local graphic design geniuses Chase & Galley.
LAUNCH!
Libraryland! will launch this December, and you are invited!
2pm Saturday 3 December 2011.
At Perimeter Books
748 High Street Thornbury, Melbourne. (map)
Read more on Facebook.
LAUNCH!
Libraryland! will launch this December, and you are invited!
2pm Saturday 3 December 2011.
At Perimeter Books
748 High Street Thornbury, Melbourne. (map)
Read more on Facebook.
GO ON!
Support this project and not only will you be bringing more silly and serious drawings into people's lives, thus brightening them up immeasurably, you'll automatically become a real Patron of the Arts! COOL!
OSLO DAVIS
October 2011
October 2011
Project By
Oslo Davis was born in Brooklyn, Tasmania. He is now an illustrator and cartoonist living in Melbourne, Australia.
Oslo draws cartoons for The Age, the Sunday Age, Meanjin, Desktop Magazine, the Readings Monthly and Art Guide Australia. His work has appeared in the New York Times, BusinessWeek, The Big Issue, the Sleepers Almanac, Tango, Going Down Swinging, Torpedo and the Wheeler Centre website.
Oslo Davis draws cartoons for The Age, and a book collecting his Sunday Age 'Overheard' cartoons is out now through Arcade Publications. He also occasionally writes articles and reviews for ThreeThousand.com.au.
In 2010 Oslo Davis completed a Creative Fellowship residency at the State Library of Victoria where he worked on a collection illustrations for Libraryland. For the 2011 Melbourne Writers Festival Oslo edited and produced a newspaper of cartoons called Drawn From Life, which was handed out for free across Melbourne's train network on the morning of Friday 26th of August.
Oslo draws cartoons for The Age, the Sunday Age, Meanjin, Desktop Magazine, the Readings Monthly and Art Guide Australia. His work has appeared in the New York Times, BusinessWeek, The Big Issue, the Sleepers Almanac, Tango, Going Down Swinging, Torpedo and the Wheeler Centre website.
Oslo Davis draws cartoons for The Age, and a book collecting his Sunday Age 'Overheard' cartoons is out now through Arcade Publications. He also occasionally writes articles and reviews for ThreeThousand.com.au.
In 2010 Oslo Davis completed a Creative Fellowship residency at the State Library of Victoria where he worked on a collection illustrations for Libraryland. For the 2011 Melbourne Writers Festival Oslo edited and produced a newspaper of cartoons called Drawn From Life, which was handed out for free across Melbourne's train network on the morning of Friday 26th of August.
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A$30+ Reward
Cool! Thanks! I will personally post you one copy of Libraryland after signing it, numbering it and lightly stroking it with some fresh watercress. You'll also appear on my Pozible Wall with your name and/or website link or whatever.
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A$55+ Reward
Hey - GREAT! I will post you TWO signed and numbered copies of Libraryland! One for you to look at home, the other to take with you wherever you go! You'll also have the honour of getting your sweet name my Pozible Wall, with your website or blog link.
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A$115+ Reward
Now for this much, how can I pozibly thank you enough? Well, how about a page of ORIGINAL drawings that were actually done for this very Libraryland book?! (Example page pictured.) AND, I'll throw in a copy of Libraryland, signed, numbered and posted to you wherever you are. AND, you'll appear on my Pozible Wall with your name and/or website link.
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A$260+ Reward
MAJOR bragging rights with this one, you arts philanthropist you! Who are you, Richard Pratt?! For this amount (or more - what's stopping you?!) I'll reluctantly part with an original, signed, pen and ink, flesh and bone Overheard cartoon. (Overheard is a cartoon that appears each week in the Sunday Age.) You'll be geting one of these two pictured, or another that tickles your fancy - let me know and I'll see if it's available. AND, what the hell, I'll chuck in a FREE copy of Libraryland, signed and numbered. How's that?! You'll also appear on my Pozible Wall with your name and/or website link or whatever.
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A$1000+ Reward
For this amount you get the ULTIMATE REWARD: A FRAMED Overheard (pictured) AND an Oslo Davis Happy Pack! An Oslo Davis Happy Pack is a collection of my recent books: Conceived on a Tram, Golden Week, Overheard, Three Books and Where the Wild Things Aren't, almost all of which are not available any more. I will personally deliver all this to your door (Melbourne residents only, sorry - the rest I will post). And, of course, a copy of Libraryland. And your name on my Pozible Wall with your website link.
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