Review: Paris Je T'aime

Urban sketcher Lapin returns to his home city to bring us a celebratory and quirky diary of a month in Paris.

By Tom May
( ImagineFX )
published

Our Verdict

Lapin's bijou Parisian tome is delightful and thoroughly inessential, but a lovely thing to own.

For

  • Beautiful, quirky sketches celebrating Paris
  • Accompanied by engaging handwritten tales

Against

  • Occasionally bordering on twee

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Lapin, a French illustrator and artist based in Barcelona, is a hero of the urban sketching movement and he's been busy of late. Paris Je T'aime is one of three sketchbooks he produced in 2016, alongside Barcelona: Modernisme, Beyond Gaudí and Barcelona: Original. 

Lapin says he aimed to "celebrate the city that has given me so much"

Lapin says he aimed to "celebrate the city that has given me so much"

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The Verdict
8

out of 10

Review: Paris Je T'aime

Lapin's bijou Parisian tome is delightful and thoroughly inessential, but a lovely thing to own.

Tom May
Tom May

Tom May is an award-winning journalist and editor specialising in design, photography and technology. Author of the Amazon #1 bestseller Great TED Talks: Creativity, published by Pavilion Books, Tom was previously editor of Professional Photography magazine, associate editor at Creative Bloq, and deputy editor at net magazine. Today, he is a regular contributor to Creative Bloq and its sister sites Digital Camera World, T3.com and Tech Radar. He also writes for Creative Boom and works on content marketing projects.