Yusof Gajah
Prominent artist Yusof Gajah has a deep and abiding love for children's books and working with children. While a busy artist, he has managed to write and illustrate a number of books for children and have won the National Book Council Award for best picture book and the Noma Concours (ACCU) award for best illustrations. His popular picture book, 'The Real Elephant' was first published in Malay and has been translated into Japanese. Its enduring qualities have enabled an English publication in 2010. He has also created the 'ELEPHABET' which continues to attract both children and adults.
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Books Published:
Tiga Ekor Gajah Si Meot Gajah Sejati (The Real Elephant - translated into English and Japanese) Elephabet (2009) Mother & Child (2009) Elephabet - Amazing Activity Book (2009) Other Products: Elephabet Flashcards |
"[Yusof's] paintings... are sophisticated and masterfully executed. But for Yusof, to depict elephants naturalistically is not enough. It is not enough for him merely to ‘paint what he sees’. He uses his paintings to evoke non-visual content, his life experience, in a visual way. Through such techniques as successive distortion, inclusion and exclusion of form, and the simplification and abstraction of shapes; he builds up components to form the elephant so that it signifies and simultaneously depicts aspects of his experiences. We may thus regard his contribution to this dialogue an aesthetic, rather than a naturalistic depiction." - Badrolhisham Mohamad Tahir
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Toitomboor children's magazine, Bangladesh
Cover design by Yusof Gajah for the June 2009 issue of Toitomboor, a children's magazine in Bangladesh. The magazine invites a different artist each month to illustrate its cover.