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Oh, the Places You Won’t Go! Jim Malloy Remixes Dr.Seuss Books
Oh, the Places You Won’t Go! Artist Jim Malloy Remixes Dr.Seuss Books.
ABOUT OH THE PLACES YOU’LL GO !
It had been years since Boston-based creative director Jim Malloy thought about the latter’s books. After seeing a social media post about Oh the Places You’ll Go!, Malloy began toying around with some wordplay in the spirit of Seuss, and it made him smile—and he realized it might make others smile, too. He thus began passing the time by marrying the covers of Seuss with the wisdom of the doctor on the front lines of the battle with the pandemic (and its related outbreaks of misinformation).
Malloy’s goal was to change the covers as little as possible, and to keep everything in Seuss’ signature style—which Sean Trowbridge’s font Doctor Soos helped with considerably once Malloy discovered it. He credits his wife with the deep Seuss cuts like The Butter Battle Book and The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (the latter interpretation of which Malloy is most proud of, given the texture and style that depart from the author’s later books).
