Varoom 36 the Love issue
The “Love” issue of Varoom explores the communication, commerce and creativity of love: from brands reconstructing the visual languages of love to connect with new markets beyond heterosexual norms, to the politics of sexuality, to the love of creativity expressed by illustrators in the act of image-making.
From Smirnoff vodka’s ‘Choose Love’ bottles celebrating Pride, to the explicit but empathetic sex clubs drawings that Felix Scheinberger sketches in Berlin, to the bespoke Valentines created for her commissioners by designer Marian Bantjes.
Olimpia Zagnoli is this issue’s cover artist, and our profile, The Sensation of Reading, explores The Folio Society’s love of producing strikingly illustrated books. We talk to the publisher, illustrators and designers who bring a new approach to classic texts.
Obsession and love makes us do extraordinary things. In Beauty School Gave Me Brain Damage we explore the work of Seth Bogart: an explosively messy confection of punk, Pee-Wee Herman and products – anyone for ‘Manty Hose’?
Our relationship with the images we fall in love with are truly, madly, deeply complicated. So we asked six industry professionals to write a love letter to an image-maker and image they fell in love with…
The regular Innovators section focuses on notable commercial work and personal projects selected by Varoom’s industry insiders, including David Roberts’ fashion detailed children’s book, Tobias Hall’s Warburtons campaign and Samuel Wingate’s Grindr Project.
The Sensation of Reading — The Folio Society
In an age of fast, immediate digital experiences, one company has remained wedded to its love of printed matter, of typography and illustration, and is paradoxically very much a 21st Century publisher. John O’Reilly talk to the illustrators, art directors and editors who create the sumptuous editions for The Folio Society.