Vinjete straholjubca - The Bête Noire Vignettes

New Flash Fiction - illustration / book design The Bête Noire Vignettes is a joint project with Slovenian dramaturge and playwright Eva Mahkovic. Short grotesque stories - vignettes are taking place in unusual places and include a series of witty characters. Texts draw from a variety of sources - the Bible, different authors, such as Arthur Schnitzler, William Shakespeare, Truman Capote, Agatha Christie, Umberto Eco, Edith Wharton, RM Rilke, Victorian medical textbooks and pop music. In the Vignettes, all of these elements are given new roles and connotations. Just like the texts, illustrations draw from multiple sources and are inspired by the grotesque – mixture of unusual, comic, ironic, distorted images carrying a deep meaning. Illustrations are made in mixed media, where collage has the strongest expression and most fragments come from old engravings and medieval illuminated manuscripts.

The book was published by VigeVageKnjige and received the highest award at 35th Slovenian Book Fair – the Book of the Year 2019. Also presented at 14th Biennal of Slovenian Illustration, where it received Special mention by the President of the Jury.

Since many texts draw from medieval saintly legends, I decided to use decorated initial letters - following the example of medieval manuscripts.

Few full-page illustrations from the book.

The book is complemented by a large map - modeled on the medieval mappae mundi, which captures the imaginary world of Vignettes.

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