We have recently taken stock of this beautifully conceived book from GraphicDesign&, Veronica Bennett and Ryan Todd. Titled Looking Good, the book is a study of a nun's form of dress and its visual code.
Looking Good: A visual guide to the nun’s habit identifies and illustrates the dress of more than 40 Catholic communities of nuns and sisters. It catalogues and compares this ‘extra ordinary’ religious clothing, explaining its components, significance and distinguishing identifiers. The accompanying text, incorporating visions and miracles, high drama and humble beginnings, persecution and insurrection, reveals how the story of the habit is also that of the struggle between the powerful and the poor; of politics, social care and the role of women; and of the interplay between culture, fashion and faith.
In Looking Good, graphic design and illustration are employed with clarity and charm to decipher this most enduring and evocative form of visual identity – and present it for fresh appreciation at a time when it appears to be in demise.
Jon Dowling
Counter-Print
Looking Good
Hi Nicolai, unfortunately the publisher does not intend to reprint it.
Jon on
Hi,
Is this being reprinted?
Nicolai Hart Hansen on