Nick Hayes- The Rime of the Modern Mariner

'The Rime of the Modern Mariner' is a fantastic graphic novel that i bought last year and is an interesting retelling of a classic tale 'The rime of the ancient mariner'.
I just love this books and its a joy to read as well as beautifully illustrated throughout. It has a lovely blue colour palette, focusing a few desaturated blues and black on the off white paper. It creates a great nautical feel and helps make the piece as a whole work together.


The drawings are very stylized and often intricate with lots of texture thrown in. The drawings frequently go outside of the boundaries of the panels and create obscure shapes which make it make it more interesting to read.
I especially love the typeface that accompanies the illustrations, it fits so well and I love the way the size changes so that the words fit nicely between the frames.

It also has a really nice print feel to it, although it seems to be digitally produced. The handmade feel this gives makes it much more desirable and interesting to me.

Id love to create something as complete as this with the wonderful restricted colour palette and awesome typeface. I think this could come in handy for the instructional illustration part of the module as a way to make it engaging to the viewer. Which is important for instructions...