Lukas Novotny's Blog - Posts Tagged "architecture"

I'm thrilled to reveal the cover of my first book — Modern London: An illustrated tour of London's cityscape from the 1920s to the present day ! 144 pages of hard work (and fun). It will be published on 4 October by White Lion Publishing. 🚧 Stay tuned for more information!

Wow, making a normal looking blog-post on Goodreads is actually really hard! Uff. Anyway.. Modern London is being printed in Hong Kong! It is an interesting process, seeing your illustrations and designs turned into mass production. Most of my previous work was printed only digitally, where's the quality of print really different.

In the proofing stage, the printer sends you two separate books — one of them has all the graphics (CMYK colours) while the other one is only text (tints of black). It's up to your imagination to connect those two together in your head!

Very nice review of Modern London: An illustrated tour of London's cityscape from the 1920s to the present day in the new C20 Magazine. Reviewed by Geraint Franklin from Historic England. Here's a few (obvs positive) highlights:

Novotny has developed an effective graphic style somewhere between cartoon and infographic in which each elevation is pared down to its essence without losing the telling details.

In an especially nice touch, the spreads are peppered with a miscellany of roadside structures such as phone boxes, Belisha beacons and London-related vehicles such as the infamous ‘bendy buses’.

The text is lively, accessible and there’s a barely-suppressed sense of fun.

My book Modern New York: The Illustrated Story of Architecture in the Five Boroughs from 1920 to Present and illustrations are exhibited in Museum of Illustration, 128 East 63rd Street Manhattan. Many thanks to the Society of Illustrators for selecting me!

The show is on till 12 April.