Alberto Hernández

Hybrid Novels; Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Image Courtesy of ALBERTO HERNÁNDEZ

If you are a happy victim of books like me, this post is for you!

Spanish designer ALBERTO HERNÁNDEZ - who just finished his MA Graphic Design at London College of Communication - has an obsession: hydrid novels.

Hybrid novels are a new way of reading narrative fiction and can be seen be seen as a hybrid image-text novel, not a children’s book, graphic novel/comic or gift book but a book where written text and graphic devices such as illustration, photography, information graphics or typographic treatments may interject in order to hold a readers’ interest, adding interactiveness to the book and also giving the printed page a multidimensional visual surface. It is a book that requires the reader's actions and also to be handled and experienced.

This remediation of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde tries, by adding playful graphic devices to the original novel, to engage readers in a more dynamic narrative experience and help them at the same time to understand the story more easily. - by ALBERTO HERNÁNDEZ


A genious work. Rare. I want to have in my hands and experiment it! Lets take a look closer on his website


ps. ALBERTO is looking for a work placement...no doubt he will find something shortly!

found via yatzer.com