harry potter and the chamber of secrets book minalima

While MinaLima’s style is synonymous with the Wizarding World, the designers had to quickly forget about the on-screen Potter universe. We don’t see that in the film, so I think to be able to spend more time with the ghosts of Hogwarts is really fun. The deathday party with all the ghosts and Halloween. One of Eduardo’s favorite interactive designs is the Burrow because it represents Harry “visiting a proper family that is happy, crazy, and dysfunctional at the same time.” However, when it comes to the other illustrations in the book, his favorites are those moments that are not shown in the films. That’s too bulky.’ But I think for this book, we chose the best ones and we didn’t miss anything. After, that is the boring thing of ‘Oh, that’s too expensive. Eduardo revealed that although eight made it into the book, they originally started with 12 designs.

There are moments like that we say, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, even if it’s too much at the beginning of the book, we will have to find a way to compensate somewhere else.’Ĭhamber of Secrets contains eight interactive elements, including a paper-engineered mandrake, Whomping Willow, Basilisk, and Burrow. The Burrow was one, the Floo Network, the Whomping Willow with the Ford Anglia stuck. The challenge for MinaLima was trying to balance a limited page count with the desire to explore special moments of the story. This vital part of designing Harry’s second year at Hogwarts laid out the moments in the story with accompanying illustrations and interactive elements.

To celebrate the publication of MinaLima’s illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, MuggleNet sat down with Eduardo Lima to talk about designing Harry’s second year at Hogwarts and what is going on with those book spines (sort of).įor Eduardo, Chamber of Secrets began with a book map.

Harry potter and the chamber of secrets book minalima