Authors
Amandine Alessandra is a graphic designer, photographer and researcher from Réunion Island. Her playful installation and performance-based 3D typographic work has featured in numerous books. She likes to think of typography as a way to transform the message into a readable experience. Amandine is the co-author of The Big Letter Hunt in the East End of London.
Jenny Bowers‘ illustrations can be found every month in Vogue Japan. She has illustrated stationery for Chronicle Books, packaging for Waitrose, Clinique, Bloomingdales and The Royal Mail. She’s a graduate of the Royal College of Art and a member of the London-based illustration and animation collective Peepshow. Jenny illustrated My Bedroom and made the limited edition riso print Bedroom Floor.
Alice Malia is a British theatre designer, maker and illustrator. She often draws live on stage while playing an active part in the narrative of a performance. Alice lives in San Francisco, where she recently illustrated volume 25 of the Quarterly for 826 Valencia. Her Bernal Folk print depicts people from her neighbourhood – Bernal Heights, drawn from a public bench or a café in 2017.
Rute Nieto Ferreira is the co-author of The Big Letter Hunt in the East End of London, Big Letter Hunt London (Batsford Books), What Did Alex See? and My Bedroom. Rute works at the intersection of architecture, education and publishing. She’s worked as an architect and urban designer in Portugal, Sweden, UK, and California, more recently as part of urban design consultancy Gehl. She has taught architecture at undergraduate and post-graduate level and developed children’s architecture workshops for the Victoria & Albert Museum. She is interested in getting kids to engage with the design of places.
Andrés Sandoval, author of PERIFERIA, is a graphic artist, living and working in São Paulo, Brazil, where he graduated in architecture and urbanism. Besides murals and paving designs, his artistic practice includes illustrated books and other works on paper. His books have been published by Companhia das Letras, Cosac Naify and Planeta Tangerina. Since 2006 he illustrates a section of the Brazilian culture magazine Piauí.
David Sim is an architect and author of the book Cidade Suave (Soft City has now been translated into more than twenty languages). David is from Scotland and has lived for many years in Scandinavia. He spent 17 years at Gehl, where he developed design tools and projects all over the world that promote more liveable, dense and diverse urban environments, always with a human scale. He continues to do that at his company Softer, and to lecture widely on how to make kinder, gentler and more responsive and sustainable cities, towns and villages.
Lucy Vigrass is a London-based illustrator and founding member of Peepshow Collective. Her editorial work has been on the cover of The Economist and Creative Review, featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Wired, Time Out and weekly in The Independent and The Telegraph Magazines. She works collaboratively with Peepshow Collective art-directing moving image projects and installations. Lucy is the illustrator of the book What Did Alex See? and the print Columbia Road.
Collaborations
Tower Block Books often works with children and young people. Over the years, we’ve had lots of brilliant co-authors. Sometimes we team up with students to make calendars that help raise money for more art in their schools. In 2015, we worked with Columbia Primary School in East London. In 2016, we worked with Leonard R. Flynn Elementary in the Mission District of San Francisco. We also run workshops and urban walks about typography, architecture, neighbourhoods, cities, spaces and places.