COLLABORATIVE GAME
December 19th
The Post Standard
“Here is a list of my picks of holiday gifts for the art lover.”
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December 11th
Free People
“…upon opening it, a fascinating visual experience literally unfolds before your eyes.”
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December 3rd
Daily Candy
“Accordion-style pages pull out, so you can really get the full effect and connection from drawing to drawing and artist to artist.”
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December 1st
NPR
“…The one rule: Before putting pen to paper, each artist is only allowed to see the panel that precedes his or her own. The result: A fantastically quirky little art book whose ideas and pages literally just keep unfolding and unfolding.”
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Fall 2010
RISD XYZ Magazine
“Not surprisingly, the results are fascinating, as Dave Eggers points out in the foreword. and the format is as unique as the contents, with each of the 10 chapters bundled as a 10-page accordion pull-out.”
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November 29th
LA Weekly
“…there must be something in the zeitgeist, as 100 artists (including at least one of the Henry and Glenn Forever crew) just took part in the recently published The Exquisite Book, containing 10 artsy/comicy works flying blind, Tristan Tzara style.”
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November 17th
The Weekly Review (Australia)
“The foreword by Dave Eggers (What is the What) is enough of a reason to buy this compelling and seriously cool work. What we want to know is: how did the publisher design it for the price?”
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November 7th
BigThink.com
“In our current world of straight-jacketed rationality almost to the point of insanity, The Exquisite Book launches us into the madness of possibility and the frightening potential of our own imagination.”
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November 4rd
Amazon Best of 2010
“Voted #5 on Amazon’s Editors’ Top Picks for Arts & Photography Books of 2010!”
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November 3rd
Chicagoist
“We Think The Exquisite Book Is Simply Exquisite”
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November 2nd
About.com
“The result of this work is ten ten-page narrations, each full of marvelously unique illustrations, each connected via theme, color, or perhaps just a single graphical element…”
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October 28th
Time Out Chicago Magazine
“Complete with an intro by Dave Eggers and a series of illustrations by 100 artists (from Camilla Engman to local great Anders Nilsen) all riffing on one another’s work exquisite corpse-style, Chronicle’s new The Exquisite Book is nothing short of inspirational.”
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October 26th
Readymade Magazine
“…we love how it’s a picture book for adults that is both creatively inspiring and incredibly engaging. It’s divided up into sections with accordian-style fold outs, featuring panels by at least one artist whose work you’ve most certainly heard of and enjoyed, which means it’s really fun to flip through. ”
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October 18th
7×7 Magazine
“The resulting book shows—in satisfyingly thick, fold-out pages—the results of this collective stream of consciousness. As Dave Eggers writes in his foreword, ‘The Exquisite Corpse was invented by madmen. It is enjoyed by the unsavory.’ That’s us! ”
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September 28th
Juxtapoz Magazine
“Each one of the ten chapters is an accordion pull-out with five artists on the front and five on the back, connecting each page by one shared horizontal line. Featuring David Shrigley, James Jean, Carson Ellis, and uhh…97 other artists..”
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September 13th
Vogue Italia Magazine
“This unprecedented book is therefore a collection of ten accordions of images that are all attached one to the other. It’s a creative explosion that follows a graphic analogy…”
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September 1st
Brain Pickings
“The project is an instant piece of creative culture history, from the illustrated introduction by McSweeney’s Dave Eggers of 826 Valencia and Where The Wild Things Are fame, to the meticulous making of its cover, to the all-star roster of contributing artists.”
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August 31st
Design*Sponge
“over 100 artists contributed to the book in an ongoing piece that’s loosely based on the “exquisite corpse” game invented by the surrealists (meaning each one adds on to the previous artist’s drawing using a common horizon line). i’ve watched how hard julia, matt, and jenny have been working on this for a year now and i’m so impressed and so proud of their hard work. if you see a copy in a store near you be sure to check it out…”
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January 14th
20×200
“…they all connect in unexpectedly beautiful ways. The result is a book packed full of wildly different styles of illustration, made coherent by a simple set of rules…”
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