Dimensions
135 x 218 x 10mm
Kapow! takes place in the thick of the Arab Spring, guided by the high speed monologue of an unnamed narrator over-doped, over-caffeinated, over-weight trying to make sense of this history in real time: with 24 hour broadcasts, YouTube films, lesbian bars in Londons East End and far too many newspaper clippings. A clever, funny and bitingly critical cultural commentary, using spinning digressions to tell the stories of a group of interconnected characters in London and Egypt, each transformed by the idea of revolution. Beautifully and thoughtfully designed by Studio Frith, hailed by the New York Times as the go-to graphic designer, Kapow! asks readers to open and unfold pages, to follow text leaking in and out of paragraphs, to discover more and more visual surprises, while progressively becoming part of and lost within the narrators giddy digressions.
