Electronic version of Cemetery Stories by Boris Akunin and Grigory Chkhartishvili

Overview   Process  

Task: to illustrate a book and publish it in electronic format.

Cemetery Stories is a collection of essays about six famous cemeteries and detective stories that take place on them. The main feature of the book is that the essays are written by Grigory Chkhartishvili, and the detective stories come from Boris Akunin’s pen.

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E-book’s cover


To illustrate the book, the studio together with the author launched a contest: readers were asked to send in their own photos of cemeteries, the best of which would be included in the e-book. Eventually, more than two hundred pictures made it into the book.

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About Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris
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About Green-Wood cemetery in New York
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Abstract from “One—Lips, Two—Teeth” short story
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Appendix. Photos of other old cemeteries

Release date: November 17 2011

Cast:

art director
designer
technical designer
illustrators
typesetter
editor
project manager
The studio and author would like to thank everyone who participated in the contest

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