Noma Bar and Creative Review

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:58:00 +0000

Back in November, along with around 900 other people, I entered a competition on Creative Review for a chance to win 13-signed Murakami prints designed by Noma Bar. If you don’t know Noma Bar’s work, check him out, especially his book Negative Space.

As you gathered by this blog post, I won that competition. The competition in question was simply, “propose a title for a future Murakami story”. With a ridiculous amount of well thought out entries such as “Why Leaves Fall on the Heads of Weeping Dogs” and “The soul-shaping square”, it was hard to imagine winning such a prize but with Murakami, anything is possible and the kind folks at Creative Review decided my entry of “A dog, from the inside out” was worthy of the prints.

“Short, simple, but still brilliantly bizarre, Thomas’ title also has a touch of Groucho Marx about it, namely his famous joke about books: "Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

I finally managed to get up to London this week to collect the prints and although the photos below will show you the artwork of each print, nothing can replace seeing them with your own eyes. The level of detail and the quality of the print is unlike anything I have seen before; they have been reproduced beautifully. I will upload more images when I frame them and try to capture the detail and quality.

Thomas Laker

Noma Bar and Creative Review