Zoom
Istvan Banyai, 1995. ISBN 0-670-85804-8.
Viking Press, $16.99, hardback.
The experienced traveler on planet Earth knows first impressions are frequently deceiving and the universe is not easily pinned down on the bulletin board of our expectations. This slim book could be considered the essential travel guide to life.
Banyai is a Hungarian-born commercial illustrator and animator whose work has frequently appeared in magazines and on album covers. His distinctive style is readily identifiable and known for an often quirky understatement.
Beginning with a brilliantly red geometric image, the reader of Zoom zips through a fanciful journey that continuely peels back assumptions of what lies before - and ahead. This is a book without words and trying to describe it verbally is to hopelessy muddy the profound clarity of the booksmessage.
Suffice it to say, everyone I have shared this book with radiates an ever widening grin of amazement with the turn of every page.
Trust me, just go out and buy it.
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