The best design book of the year is a 700-year-old poem about Hell

Artist Sophy Hollington created a gorgeous reimagining of Dante’s ‘Inferno.’ It’s not every day that an illustrated edition of a 700-year-old classic poem explodes on Kickstarter, surpassing its $100,000 goal in less than a week. But then again, it’s not every day that an author is so brilliantly and perfectly paired with artist: In this case, a long-dead Dante Alighieri and linocut wunderkind Sophy Hollington, whose mesmerizing style falls somewhere between medieval folkloric fuzz and vibrant acid pop. It took the better part of a century, but never has the underworld looked so sublime in Dante’s Inferno. Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

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