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RAUL COLON ILLUSTRATES BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL POSTER

August 1, 2019

Raul Colon employed a double dose of magic to illustrate the poster for this year's Brooklyn Book Festival.  “I wanted to show people coming across the East River, going to Brooklyn. There’s nothing better than the Brooklyn Bridge” to represent the borough, he said. “And the people — I wanted diversity, and I know the Book Festival people did too.”

“The boat symbolizes people going on an adventure. It’s a paper boat, to make it a page with words and text. The quotes are from Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet.’" Colon said. “A little fantasy, a journey. All these folks reading in a little boat going to Brooklyn...”


 

Tags: Raul Colon, Illustration, Poster, Promotional Campaign, Publishing

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