A History of the World (in Dingbats): Drawings & Words

by David Byrne

Alex Kalman (Designer)

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As 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.

  • ISBN10 1838665110
  • ISBN13 9781838665111
  • Publish Date 17 February 2022
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Phaidon Press Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 160
  • Language English