Tara Books and the making of a book by hand From her studio Minus 9 Design, Rathna Ramanathan has worked with Tara Books on projects over the last sixteen years. Here, she reflects on her experiences of collaborating with Tara Books in the context of sustainable modes of design and production, and alternative models of [...]
In January, Tara publisher Gita Wolf was invited to be part of the jury to select entries for the prestigious Bologna Illustrators’ Annual for 2013. The selected illustrators were announced at the Bologna Book Fair last month, and their work was displayed at the fair. Here she writes about the experience and reflects upon how [...]
Tara Books editor and documentary film maker Arun Wolf tackles the thriving, yet confounding publishing industry in India. Encompassing over 120 languages and around 19,000 publishers, it’s a market that is vast, diverse and often difficult. But Indian publishers are innovative in their response to the challenges posed by distribution and the digital revolution. 6 [...]
Reflecting on our blossoming relationship with Korea “For me, Tara Books is a publisher which has a strong identity. And this identity lies on the border between not only what is local and what is universal, but also what is traditional and what is contemporary. Their approach to the book is something between the view [...]
An Interview with Anushka Ravishankar On the fifteenth anniversary of the publication of her first book, India’s acclaimed nonsense poet Anushka Ravishankar talks to the team at Tara Books about the collaborative process behind making picture books for children. 8 people like this post. Like Unlike
I was invited to the Guadalajara book fair, recently, on a publisher’s fellowship. Afterwards, my travels around Mexico took me to the state of Chiapas, to visit an extraordinary book making cooperative of Mayan women called Taller Lenateros, The Woodlanders’ Workshop. Impossible to sum up otherwise, I decided to turn my experience into a small [...]
Ganesh Jogi, musician and artist from Rajasthan-Gujarat, is no more. We met him and his wife Teju Behan in February 2010, and invited them to sing and draw for us. 8 people like this post. Like Unlike
A Workshop Exploring Indian Floor Patterns All over India, there are enduring traditions of women decorating the threshold of their homes with decorative patterns. Known by different names in various communities, they are called kolam in Tamil Nadu. Women create them every day with rice paste or powder, and by nightfall, they are usually gone. [...]
A Tale Replete with Fate, Destiny and the Human Condition Recently, one of the most difficult projects we’ve ever done came together in a deeply satisfying way. I See The Promised Land is a graphic novel on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. The art is by Manu Chitrakar, a scroll painter from the [...]
Talking to Marion Bataille There is nothing we enjoy more than playing with the form of the book, and meeting the French artist Marion Bataille was a revelation. Marion performs an incredible feat – she pushes the borders of bookmaking beyond text and illustration. Her pop-up books – originally published in France by Albin Michel [...]