The Reason I Jump - Naoki Higashida, with an Introduction by David Mitchell - HB

Illustration/Design/Art Direction - commissioned by Hodder & Stoughton - London

Images run throughout the book.

'The Reason I Jump' connected with Sunny and me on a number of levels, but most overwhelmingly Naoki's relationship with nature was the link for the imagery. Naoki returns to nature again and again in the book. He can see beauty and meaning within nature and abstract this information and relate it back to himself, and always turns to nature for comfort and refer to it as his friend. We use nature in our work to connect with people, to provoke thoughts and memories. We like the idea of showing something you can't actually see – and ask bigger questions. We use nature-based images as a metaphor for other feelings. For Sunny and me, this was how we could combine our imagery with Naoki and his powerful story.

The Reason I Jump on the Daily Show with John Stewart
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