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Book SynopsisAs featured in The New York Times, T Magazine, and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The phenomenally creative musician and filmmaker David Byrne presents new artwork that explores daily life in surprising ways, with unique reflections on shared human experiences - a book for our time from a highly influential artist
Through striking and humorous figurative drawings, the iconic artist and musician David Byrne depicts daily life in intriguing ways. His illustrations, created while under quarantine, expand on the dingbat, a typographic ornament used to illuminate or break up blocks of text, to explore the nuances of life under lockdown and evoke the complex, global systems the pandemic cast in bright light. Edited and designed by Alex Kalman in close collaboration with Byrne, this unique book reflects on shared experiences and presents history as a story that is continually undergoing revision.
Trade Review'Quirky and moving.' – Publishers Weekly
'Whimsical … an accessible escape from daily drudgery.' – Forbes
'Striking ... Will cheer you up.' – BBC World Service
'A playful yet poignant meditation … radiating from the pages… is Byrne's buoyant vision for the new world.' – The Marginalian, Maria Popova
'Playfully illustrated.' – Open Culture
