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Otto and the Upside-Down Moon
A 32-page picture book about a boy who climbs onto his roof to turn the moon the right way up.
- Client
- Dovetail Books
- Kind
- Picture books
- Year
- 2026
- Inks
- Federal blue, yellow, fluorescent pink
From sketch to print
The pencil stage: every plate drawn as line on one sheet, so the composition and the overlaps are agreed before any ink goes down. Clients see two or three of these.
Each ink is its own drawing, printed in its own pass through the machine. On their own they look strange; on top of each other they make every other color.
The finished print, with the plates a hair off register the way a riso leaves them. Switch an ink off to see what it adds.
All 3 inks printed.
The brief
Wendeline Saltmarsh’s text is only 410 words long, so the pictures carry the night.
Delivered
- 32 pages and cover
Process notes
How it went
First printing of 8,000 copies.