Painful People

Illustration for Design
Client		Filter Press
Brand		Filter Press
Agency		Alok Nanda and Company

Audience & Distribution		Being a design book, the distribution was limited to stores and bookshops that specialized in art and design titles. It was also available on specific online stores. The target audience was lovers of design and art who frequent such establishments.

Brief		Filter Press is an independent publishing house that specialises in alternative content and design titles. The brief was to design the new title from Filter Press – Painful People. As a design book it needed to stand out from the usual clutter, in every aspect.

Solution		The illustrations complemented the book’s tone of voice. The imperfect body forms were derived from the nature of a ‘painful person’. They all act without consideration and refuse to listen sense. So in place of their ears are their hands. To enhance the value of the unique illustrations we didn’t print them. Instead we created hand-stamps of each character, each stamped by the artist himself.