IDEA - Pinot

The new IDEA book is PINOT. It is a book of artworks by the pixel artist, freehand illustrator, stop-motion animator and retro technology enthusiast Wahyu Ichwandardi, known as Pinot. He has so much talent (and uses it so positively and beautifully and, let's be honest, curiously)that we could not even begin to consider not making this book!Pinot can not just draw. He can draw (and paint and animate) on Nokia phones, PalmPilot, ZXSpectrum, Apple Mac classics, Nintendo games consoles (Mario Paint!)... on anything that can bevery painstakingly programmed basically. 

The work takes days and weeks... and the result?

Adorable, simple and charming and cute and massively super cool!In June 2022, Pinot suffered a pontine hemorrhagic stroke, was in a coma for two weeks and had a very low-percentage predicted outcome of either surviving and / or living a normal life. That episode is perhaps best illustrated with this Instagram reel. A stroke survivor, Pinot doesn’t stop creating. Learning to use his non-dominant hand, he keeps working with his Amiga 1000 (1985) and Macintosh Plus (1986) to craft pixel art as part of his recovery therapy.

Double-wiro bound book with printed Post-It inserts, flip-book sections and cardboard inlays.

Texts by Gary Vaynerchuk Jérôme Jarre, Arwen + Pinot

Designed by Karla Jarvinen.

25 x 20cm.

244 pages.