Sam Winston

Initially started out as a short narrative in which certain words from the dictionary became living characters that met each other. It then evolved into two columns, with the story running in one whilst the definitions of the words ran in the other. The final element to 'A dictionary story' was the typographic illustrations, in which the definitions were used to illustrate what was happening in the narrative.

A little girl sails her raft across a sea of words, arriving at the house of a small boy and calling him away on an adventure. Through forests of fairy tales and across mountains of make-believe, the two travel together on a fantastical journey that unlocks the boy’s imagination. Now a lifetime of magic and adventure lies ahead of him . . . but who will be next? Combining elegant images by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston’s typographical landscapes shaped from excerpts of children’s classics and lullabies, A Child of Books is a stunning prose poem on the rewards of reading and sharing stories—an immersive and unforgettable reading experience that readers will want to pass on to others.

"Sky Arts Ignition: Memory Palace ... 18 June-20 October 2013 ... [B]rought together a new work of fiction by the author Hari Kunzru with 20 original commissions from leading graphic designers, illustrators and typographers to create a multidimensional story. The way we read books is changing. Memory Palace explored how a story might be imagined in a different format--as a walk-in book. Hari Kunzru's story is set in a future London, hundreds of years after the world's information infrastructure was wiped out by an immense magnetic storm. Technology and knowledge have been lost, and a dark age prevails"--Victoria and Albert Museum website, viewed on January 27, 2016.