26, through Scholastic and Harry Potter New York. The new MinaLima illustrated edition of “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” is available starting today, Oct.

If you loved the first book, you will love this one. “We had little feet in a lot of bits of the franchise and in all honesty, no one had said, ‘The one thing you hadn’t been to the is the root of all of this, the book.’ So, when they came to us, it was like, ‘Oh yes, of course. The new MinaLima edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets has arrived Wait until you see what it contains on the inside.

“We had done 10 years on the films, worked on graphic designs for the theme parks, a little bit for marketing and the theatrical side of the film release, worked on our own company, own pop-up spaces and products,” said Mina. Rowling’s literary agent brought the project to them, which they say seems like the natural continuation of their journey with the Wizarding World. The MinaLima duo and their studio already published similar recreations of classic stories “Peter Pan,” “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” and their 2020 special edition of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” J.K. Not to be confused with a traditional pop-up feature, readers will be able to turn, pull, slide, and open eight paper-engineered pages, such as the first time the reader visits the Weasley’s home and when Harry travels by Floo Network. It’s very three-dimensional, kind of like a piece of architecture.”Ī surprise and delight element of these new editions is the interactivity. But we have the privilege of thinking of everything from the endpapers to the typography, and how the typography plays with the images. Quite often, an illustrator will be brought in to illustrate someone’s work and then another studio or publisher will design it and put those pictures in. “We have the benefit as a studio of being an illustrator and designer. “The relationship with the book is so physical and so emotional that we’re always thinking about that when we’re designing,” Mina said.

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