Shake Your Tree #3   Artdirection and Design, together with Sebl Haslauer and Florian Bayer

Our first fully coloured book.

Book + Fanzine = Shake Your Tree #3 . Having released several fanzines so far, I'd like to present to you the latest addition to our ever growing family - our first fully coloured book: Shake Your Tree #3 is colorful on its surface, surprising in its depths: On 200 pages, we have combined illustrations and essays, prose and banal jokes. But look and see:

Bookdesign: This book is separted in TWO PARTS. to separte all these different stuff. We decided to make a very simple and clear design of the first part (Prose with illustration) and some fancy digital d-i-y styles in the second part of the book.

PART ONE, The Book
Short Stories / Illustrations

PART TWO, Fanzine
Fancy stuff

The diversity of our book mirrors the basic idea of Shake Your Tree: Providing an independent platform for emerging artists who want to work off the beaten tracks of the market. A diverse set of artists (about 20!), from renowned laureate to talented newcomer, have contributed to our book, as for example Dragan Espenscheid or Moki.

PART ONE, let's begin. The introduction, part of my doodeled Shake Your Tree Manifesto:

You also find my collage-series: More simple these days:

On 116 pages (Part One) you can enjoy high quality prose and refresh yourself with fine illustrations by Moki (see below), Sebastian Haslauer (Shaker Land), Florian Bayer, Anna Haas,...

PART TWO, 80 Pages Fanzine-Power:

Contributions by Dragan Espenschied (Die zwei lustigen Raver), Tracky Birthday (Pics), Jonas Natterer (Magic Eye) and Dirk Moenkemoeller with his Blubberbiertest.

The Discoghosts: Most important interview in pop history and debut album "BAD" on CD!

Also: The official start-up of our hand-painted t-shirt inc.:

LAYOUT DETAILS:
PART ONE, The Book. Schoolbook design with serif-type. Caro-pattern at the beginning of a new prosa or contribution.

PART TWO, Fanzine. Fancy Healine, typewriter type, smaller grid.

Order now:

Of course, you can order Shake Your Tree at our wonderful WEB SHOP for only 15 Bucks.

Credits:

"Shake Your Tree (aka Hasi, M-Boy and Flo) are back to deliver more visual extravaganza and eye-poppin' bliss with their first full colour release: including a huge variety of graphic stunts by the illustrious Illustration Shakers and their budding buddies..." Lodown 06/08

"'Fun is back,' the forewords headline, applies to the whole book.'" form 07/08

"Handmade und liebevoll verpackt macht es zu Recht neugierig auf das, was sich im Inneren versteckt." slanted.de 04/2008

"Eine gelungene Melange für Geist und Auge." Page 07/08

"Ein buntes Lob der Oberfläche mit überraschendem Kern." novum.de 04/08

"Das Buch wirkt wie Kohlensäure für müde Gestaltersynapsen. [...] Jung und unbekümmert macht es sich bestens als Sommerferienlektüre." De:Bug 05/08

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This illustration on page 163 was chosen to
the most valuable work on this issue.