Everything about Borin Van Loon totally explained
Borin Van Loon is a freelance illustrator (since 1976). He is an author, collagist and surrealist painter and has worked for a wide variety of clients in editorial, publishing and promotion. He has created an eclectic collage/cartoon mural on the subject of DNA and genetics for the Health Matters Gallery in London's
Science Museum.
Van Loon published The
Bart Dickon Omnibus of his hero's derring-do in 2005 comprising a surrealist collage graphic novel.
His ‘Introducing’ series of books in eclectic documentary comic-book format are published by Icon Books in the UK, and include:
Darwin and Evolution (dealing with the extraordinary legacy of
Charles Darwin) written by
Jonathan Miller;
Genetics written by
Steve Jones;
Cultural Studies,
Mathematics,
Media Studies and
Science written by
Ziauddin Sardar;
Buddha,
Eastern Philosophy,
Sociology,
Critical Theory and
Hinduism. Introducing
Psychotherapy by
Nigel C. Benson displays a typical irreverent, but relevant approach to an abstruse subject by making it accessible to the lay reader in cartoon and design. Van Loon also illustrated
Capitalism for Beginners written by
Robert Lekachman; also
DNA for Beginners by Israel Rosenfield and Ed Ziff.
Borin Van Loon has written, designed and illustrated two model-making books:
DNA - The Marvellous Molecule which enables the reader to build a colour model of the
double-helix structure discovered in 1953 by
Francis Crick and
James D. Watson with
Maurice Wilkins and
Rosalind Franklin; and
Geodesic Domes where the models celebrate the pioneering work of
Buckminster Fuller. He also painted many oil studies and designed the diagrams for the Letts Pocket Guide To The
Weather.
/blankpage was a collaborative project with sixteen other artists belonging to Freelance (which Borin chairs) created for Ip-Art 2004. It consisted of a book as an art object with pages in widely varying media, all put together by a bookbinder. This now has a permanent home in the Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich.
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