Where's My Cat

(Hardback)

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With bright, whimsical art, this humorous guessing game and visual puzzle from a legendary graphic designer will delight design fans of all ages. Is that a table--or a cow You won't believe your eyes as this humorous guessing game and visual puzzle from award-winning graphic designer Seymour Chwast, co-founder of the legendary Push Pin Studios, transforms a simple object into something completely different. Each delightfully drawn initial image is revealed, after a page turn, to be part of a larger or more elaborate thing. The objects become both more complex and sillier--ball and toaster Nah, it's a bulldog--as we make our way to the final transformation, a pair of scissors that becomes the face of the cat we've been waiting for. Readers young and old will giggle as they see the importance of recognizing odd but simple shapes and learning how they work together to form more complicated images.

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"In this drawing game turned picture book, readers are treated to an oddball menagerie fashioned from quotidian objects thanks to Chwast's visual sleights of hand....The everyday world will look a little different after readers close this book - the reward of spending time in the company of an imaginative talent." - Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

A master of historical styles and movements, graphic designer Seymour Chwast is famous for his diverse body of graphic design work, illustration, and lasting influence on American visual culture. From the author of more than 30 children's books, cofounder of the internationally recognized and critically acclaimed Push Pin Studios, winner of the AIGA MEDAL, member of the Art Directors Hall of Fame, Chwast's work can be found on countless posters, packaging, album and book covers, advertisements and editorial illustrations in the The New Yorker, The New York Times, Forbes, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic, among many others.