British illustrator Ben Newman recently applied his bold and bright style to a poster for BBC Radio 4’s upcoming dramatisation of Vasily Grossman’s epic novel Life and Fate. “The idea was to convey that the book was so controversial at its time of print that it was essentially 'placed under arrest',” explains Newman, who was supplied with images of mid-century Soviet posters as a starting point for the feel of the piece.
Ben Newman illustrates Life and Fate
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