The Business of Staying Alive
Merav Salomon
2017
The business of staying alive demonstrates in Twelve delightfully funny illustrated categories how fragile and dangerous life is. Each category is dedicated to a different realm and the ways death can find you there. From The Outdoors to Home, through History, Diseases and war - "danger is everywhere"... The business of staying alive joins the long tradition of humorous illustrations dealing with the great fear of death.
- Copies: 500
- Pages: 28
- Type of binding: soft
- Dimensions (cm): 18x27
- Type of printing: offset
- Publication: Salomon & Daughters Books
- Place of publication: Tel-Aviv Jaffa
- Book photography: איה וינדמילר
- ISBN: 9789655559132
Prof. Merav Salomon is an illustrator, book artist, and Professor of Illustration in the Visual Communication Department and the MFA program at Bezalel Academy, where since 2020 she has headed the Center for the Teaching of Art and Design, which she co-founded. From 2007 to 2018 she led the Illustration Track at Bezalel. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Salomon & Daughters, a publishing house for visual books for adults. Her books and illustrations have won numerous international and local awards, including the 2022 World Illustration Award for Most Beautiful Illustrated Book, the Communication Arts Excellence Award, the Gold Medal of the Society of Illustrators (USA), and the Israeli Ministry of Culture Design Award. Her work has been featured in leading magazines and exhibited in solo and group shows in Israel and abroad, including at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, the German Museum of Illustration, Somerset House in London, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and other international galleries.
