Miguel A. ngel Arteaga Boeken

In How Ideas Are Born, readers will find a treasure chest of images by 26 diverse illustrators from 12 different countries that the author has gathered, selected and curated for the book. The types of images and styles vary, ranging from the childlike and naïve to the poignant, suggestive and truly masterly. In addition to the 270 images, the book contains 110 drawings and pages from notebooks and sketchbooks that take the reader deeper into the nature of each artist’s work. The visual elements are complemented by revealing interviews with each artist in which they discuss what compelled them to become illustrators, their inspirations, and the research, methods, personal philosophies and work processes that allow them to transform a creative impulse or an emotion into an idea, and an idea into a work of art. We learn about what drives and inspires them as well as the origins of their ideas and creativity, from an innocent curiosity about shapes and colors to the desire to share something fascinating and wonderful with others in a unique and original way.

This creatively organized and generously illustrated book explores the art of creative thinking through the visual work, writings and experiences of world-renowned Spanish graphic designer and illustrator Isidro Ferrer. Readers will find examples of his extensive work, the most recognizable and the most unknown, and insights into the personality and creative processes of this multifaceted artist. Structured around different concepts such as farce, disorder, wandering and time, the book includes descriptive texts that portray the artist's vision of his work as a creator as well as a series of brief, vivid texts that illustrate how, over the years, the artist has put his theories and beliefs about such notions as the nature of time, memory and language into practice.