Sumi ink and brush, Photoshop
14 x 19 cm (folded)
Life Beyond Boundaries is an intellectual memoir. It mostly describes Anderson’s life, but its main focus is an attempt, by Anderson, to account for his own ideas and his own intellectual development. Anderson’s life was varied for an academic, even for one who specialised in politics. In his suitably titled memoir ‘A life beyond boundaries’, 2 Anderson recounts his scholarly journey that started off as a teaching assistant at the Department of Government in Cornell University in 1958. He went on to become a Southeast Asianist and later, to his own surprise, earned global renown as a theorist of nationalism.
Beyond Boundaries Clothing
Awarded Honorable Mention in the Book category for the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles ILW 56, and Gerakbudaya Readers' Choice Award for Best Cover Design.
Pleased to have illustrated the wraparound cover for Gerakbudaya's edition of 'A Life Beyond Boundaries', the memoir by Benedict Anderson. He wrote 'Imagined Communities', probably the most widely read text on nationalism, and his life's work demonstrates the inseparability of politics and scholarship. The concept of an insular frog beneath a coconut shell comes from a Malay proverb ('katak di bawah tempurung') and is used in the book.
Process
Beyond Boundaries Hamburg Ny
For GB's blog, I wrote a brief walkthrough of how this was made .