PULA’S LIVING POSTCARDS

PULA’S LIVING POSTCARDS

Illustrated episodes from the Austro-Hungarian city

THURSDAY, 3 DECEMBER 2015, 17:00, CROATIAN DEFENDERS HOME, RED SALON

Pula’s Living Postcards is The Book Fair(y)’s new virtual edition, read and browsed in digital form, which was painstakingly prepared for two years. The long creative process is no surprise taking into account the fact that this product joins illustration, animation, programming and text.

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ABOUT THE POSTCARDS

Young illustrators Manuel Šumberac and Vibor Juhas designed, animated and programmed the illustrations that narrate episodes from Pula before the Great War, defying oblivion. Short, informative and accurate stories were written by Miljenko Jergović. The interactive picture book was created with the participation of Pula’s elementary schoolchildren who explored the history of Austro-Hungarian Pula, the zeitgeist and atmosphere of the time the action is set in. Graphically animated and told, this interactive picture book is in a certain way a time machine, a virtual guide by the peculiar admiral Gruss, a man from Pula in the know of countless curiosities, information and secrets of the forgotten city. The picture book is designed in a steampunk manner, with characters and background designed with retro-futurist elements. This highly educational book, resembling computer games in a way, will provide an entertaining reading of history to the young readers.