Press and Customer Reviews
"Redstone, the company whose name has become synonymous with innovation and imagination..."
Time Out
"The Redstone Press is an advertisement for smallness. It has made startling discoveries and rediscoveries. It has published titles in an original way, in beautifully produced boxed sets that are evidence of a care which larger publishers often cannot afford. And it has succeeded where others might have failed...."
The Bookseller
"…..his [Julian Rothenstein's] whole mission has been to make beautiful things and the results have almost never been equalled. The box books are inspired as are the diaries and everything else he does. We keep ours in a glass-topped display case because they are something halfway between an artefact and a book."
Will Self, The Independent Magazine
"There may be no great diarists, then, but there are still great diaries. By far the best is the legendary Redstone Diary…..In the midst of one’s self- obsessions, the Redstone diary reminds one of other worlds."
Ian Sansom, The Guardian
"Everything from Redstone Press has a distinctive house style. I can find no higher recommendation for a publisher in this day of huge international monsters who sell books by hype in between gorging on each other. Julian Rothenstein favours bold layouts and flat muted colours reminiscent of Russian Constructivism. He manages to convey a certain nostalgia and respect for the past while being at the same time fresh, unpredictable and modern."
Nicholas Garland, Weekend Telegraph
"and now, David Shrigley. If you don’t know the work of this unclassifiable artist, now is the time to become hooked. He’s Charles Addams, Jules Feiffer, Nick Garland, Steve Bell and Saul Steinberg all rolled into one, but for my money, even darker and funnier."
Richard Dorment, The Daily Telegraph
"Like Thurber and Bateman before him Adam Dant sums up the sheer agony of existence, in the ever-rolling storyboard of his achingly funny art we understand at last why modern life drives us mad."
Emma Tennant
PRESS FEATURES:
Seeing Things: The Artblog, December, 2023
Redstone Diary 2024: Creative Review, September, 2023
Seeing Things: Cent Magazine, September, 2023
Seeing Things: The Art Newspaper, September, 2023
Seeing Things: Design Observer, September, 2023
Seeing Things: LItHub, September, 2023
Seeing Things: Elle Decoration, September 2023
Seeing Things: New Statesman, September, 2023
Seeing Things: TLS, September, 2023
Redstone Diary 2023: New York Magazine, December, 2022
A Gift: New Statesman, December, 2022
A Gift, The Observer, September 2022
A Gift, Artbookreview, August, 2022
A Gift, Poetry Box, August, 2022
Everyday Play, Vanity Fair (US), May, 2022
Everyday Play, The Idler, May 2022
Everyday Play, Nycitywoman, 19 April, 2022
Everyday Play, Get Wit Quick, 19 April, 2022
Everyday Play, Lit Hub, 10 March, 2022
Everyday Play, TLS, 25 March, 2022
Everyday Play, Artbookreview, 26 April, 2022
The Book of Emotions, The Observer, November 2021
Redstone Diary 2022: In Another World, The Independent, December 2020
Dreams of Europe Diary 2020, The Independent, December 2019
Black Lives 1900, The Guardian, November 2019
Black Lives 1900, The New Yorker, November 2019
Black Lives 1900, It's Nice That, November 2019
Black Lives 1900, Black History Month, November 2019
Black Lives 1900, Literary Hub, December 2019
Black Lives 1900, Art Book, November 2019
Black Lives 1900, Design Week, November 2019
The Home Diary, Frizzi Frizzi, October 2018
Dear Howard, The Observer, October 2018
Dear Howard, i News, September 2018
Dear Howard, The Oldie, September 2018
A2Z+, The World of Interiors, April 2018
A2Z+, It's Nice That, April 2018
The Blind Photographer, The Guardian and Observer, August 2016
The Blind Photographer, The World of Interiors, September 2016
The Blind Photographer, The Telegraph, September 2016
The Blind Photographer, Dazed digital, September 2016
The Blind Photographer, CNN News, September 2016
The Blind Photographer, The Huffington Post, September 2016
The Blind Photographer, Blouin Art Info, October 2016
The Blind Photographer, Fast Co. Design, August 2016
The Blind Photographer, Amateur Photographer, August 2016
The Blind Photographer, Lomography, September 2016
Psychobook, The Sunday Times, September 2016
Psychobook, The New Yorker, August 2016
Psychobook, The New York Times, September, 2016
Psychobook, WIRED, August 2016
Psychobook, The Telegraph, September 2016
Psychobook, New York Post, August 2016
Psychobook, Wall Street Journal online, September 2016
Psychobook, Mr. Porter, September 2016
Psychobook. Publishers Weekly, July 2016
Psychobook, The Creator's Project, September 2016
Psychobook, Business Insider, August 2016
Psychobook, Omnivoracious, August 2016
Psychobook, Uncrate, August 2016
Psychobook, Boston Globe, August 2016
Psychobook, Fast Co. Design, September 2016
Psychobook, Wink, September 2016
Psychobook, Literary Hub, September 2016
Psychobook, Hyperallergic, September 2016
Psychobook, Highsnobiety, September 2016
Time: The Redstone Diary 2017, Paper Chronicles, August 2016
Art Rules! The Telegraph Luxury, 2015
The Redstone Therapeutic Diary 2016
Art Rules!: The Daily Telegraph, April 2015
Redstone Diary 2015: The Independent
Art Rules! The Art Newspaper blog
Inside the Rainbow, Hyperallergic
A collection of Soviet children's stories becomes a UK bestseller
The Redstone Social Diary 2014, Evening Standard, 3 December 2013.
Inside the Rainbow, Dazed & Confused, December 2013.
Inside the Rainbow, (recommendation by David Shrigley) The New Statesman, November 2013.
Inside the Rainbow, (recommendation by Andrew Motion) The Guardian, November 2013.
Inside the Rainbow, FT Weekend
Inside the Rainbow, The Telegraph, October 2013.
Inside the Rainbow, The Evening Standard, October 2013.
Inside the Rainbow, The Guardian, 11 October 2013
Inside the Rainbow, World of Interiors, October 2013
Inside the Rainbow, The Kommersant
Inside the Rainbow, It's Nice That
Inside the Rainbow, No more work horse
Inside the Rainbow, A Little Bird
Why We Got The Sack From The Museum, Design Week
Inside the Rainbow, Design Week
The Redstone Diary 2013, Eye Magazine
The Redstone Diary 2013, Jildy Sauce
The 2012 Redstone diary of the senses, Jildy Sauce, November 2011
The Household Box, A Little Bird, November 2011
The Household Box, Robert McCrum, The Observer, October 2011
The Redstone Book of the Eye, Dazed and Confused, October 2011
The Redstone Book of the Eye, Guardian online.
The Redstone Book of the Eye, Creative Review, September 2011
The Redstone Book of the Eye, Metro, August 2011
The Redstone Inkblot Test, Flavorwire, September 2016
The Redstone Inkblot Test, The Browser, February 2011
The Redstone Inkblot Test, The Observer, 26 December 2010
The Redstone Inkblot Test, The Mail online, December 2010
The Redstone Inkblot Test, A Little Bird Blog, December 2010
The Redstone Inkblot Test, The Telegraph online, December 2010
The Redstone Inkblot Test, The Telegraph, December 2010
The Redstone Diary 2011, The Times, 27 November 2010.
The Redstone Diary 2011, The Independent, October 2010
The Redstone Inkblot Test, Telegraph (page 1), September 2010.
The Redstone Inkblot Test, Telegraph (page 2), September 2010.
The Redstone Inkblot Test, Dazed and Confused, September 2010.
The Redstone Inkblot Test (2010), Creative Review
Alphabet by Karel Teige (2010), The Guardian
Russian Diary (2010), Angels & Urchins
Russian Diary (2010), Creative Review
Russian Diary (2010), Evening Standard
Russian Diary (2010), Times Literary Supplement
Calaveras, The Guardian Website
Russian Diary (2010), Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet Studies newsletter.
Russian Diary (2010), Snegourotchka Blog.
Psychogames, The Times, Sept 2008.
Redstone Diary, V&A Magazine, Winter 2008.
Psychogames, London Review of Books, October 2008.
Playbox, You Magazine, Mail on Sunday, 30 November 2008.
Psychogames, World of Interiors, December 2008.
Have a Nice Day!, Time Out, December 2008.
Playbox, Evening Standard, December 2008.
Psychogames and Playbox, The Guardian, 13 December 2008.
Red Book, The Times, March 2009.
CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
- Brilliant!, 29 Dec 2009
Redstone every year create the best diaries! My mum at the end of the year cuts out all the lovely pictures and creates posters to hang on the wall. Inventive orignal and ulitmately beautiful….a MUST buy along with all their lovely books
- Accept No Substitute
Every time I try to use something other than a Redstone Diary, my life goes hopelessly awry. Redstones are the perfect size, include extra pages in the front and back of the diary for notes, are wire-bound (so lie flat), include fun illustrations…the works. The daily space is large enough to include both scheduled meetings and things-to-do, without being so large it’s difficult to see the entire week. Absolutely necessary for my sanity.
- fantastic calendar
The Redstone Diary is the only diary I buy from year to year. It is week on a page format; it’s spiral bound on paper that is NOT glossy (I hate glossy paper); it has pockets for odd notes; and each year it has one theme that it pursues for all its illustrations. It’s perfect.
- Redstone Rocks
I have been using the Redstone Diary series for about 5 or 6 years now. I am always amazed at their innovative themes for each year. Every week of this day planner features a picture relating to the theme. It can be an old piece of music, a page from a book, a diagram from a scientific paper, rock paintings, photographs, a piece of artwork or sculpture, etc. When they did music as a theme, there were instruments from around the globe and through time. Colors was a fun one with pages of text books marked up in different colored highliters.
- My favorite day book
I have been using the Redstone Diary for about 10 years. It’s a comfortable size, the wiro allows it to fold over. The left hand pages alsways have something very interesting on them that are thematically related throughout the book, and there’s lots of pretty colored paper in the back to do whatever on. I tried a conventional one this year but it didn’t last long, no engrossing themes, didn’t lie flat, nothing a little loopy about it at all.
- get on the redstone bus
2007 will be my 7th year utilizing the Redstone Diary. Absolutely the best dayplanner- spiral-bound, pages broken down weekly, with enough space to write, margins and endpages to jot notes, and THE most interesting collections of art, photos, charts, etc… I like to imagine the editors slaving all year, mining the dustiest recesses of archives and the internet to find forgotten images that deserve the light of day.
If you’re currently using another dayplanner, dump it. If you’re using one of those Palm-Pilot/electronic organizer things, smash it. The future belongs to the analog loyalists.