Dive into the kaleidoscope of fun that is the world of creativity and nostalgia of Dye Your Hair With Kool-Aid, a stunning collage book by Valerie Phillips. This limited edition (only 500 copies made) photobook takes on a more-is-more ethos is a celebration of Valerie's lifelong passion for collage-making—blending elements of scrapbooks, sticker books, photographic books, and zines into one extraordinary volume.

From a young age, Valerie found joy in crafting collages, starting with pictures of animals cut from magazines and glued to colorful paper. This passion evolved into a love for creating various types of books, culminating in this beautiful publication. Dye Your Hair With Kool-Aid is the first book to showcase Valerie's collages, each one a whimsical and joyful explosion of imagery.

Featuring familiar faces like Arvida, Sara, Alice, Viktoria, and Monika, these collages transport you to enchanting scenes filled with flowers, amusement parks, outer space, horses, candy bags, stamps, stickers, and tape—all the things that bring happiness to Valerie and, she hopes, to you too.

Adding a personal touch, the book includes a sticker sheet scanned in from Valerie's own collection, inviting you to customize your copy and make it uniquely yours. Dive into this visual feast and let your imagination run wild.

The pink clothbound cover has a slight shimmer remeniscent of a glittery notebook and the text and spine details feature black foil embossing. 

Please note: Signed C-Print is supplied at random (it's like a blind bag!)

Two years ago I was contacted by Pierre at Editions Bessard, who asked if I wanted to make a book of collages.

I couldn’t have been more excited.

I’ve been making collages since I was three years old.
When I was a kid it was mainly pictures of animals cut out of magazines, glued to colourful pieces of paper.
Somehow they always ended up stapled together in a book format.

I’ve always loved making books – scrap books, sticker books, photographic books, zines, and now
‘Dye Your Hair With Kool-Aid’ – a cauldron of these elements mixed into one deluxe permanent pop home.

This is the first published book to feature my collages, and also contains stickers scanned from my own collection, which I hope people will use to customise their copies.

The collages star several amazing girls, some you might recognise from my self published books (Arvida, Sara, Alice, Viktoria & Monika) frolicking in and amongst flowers, amusement parks, outerspace, horses, candy bags, stamps, stickers and tape. All the things that make me happy.

Hope they make you happy too.

Valerie x

Limited Edition of 500 copies + signed C-Print (180 x 130 mm)
Book Designer : Valerie Philips/Joanna Starck
Valerie Phillips
Country : UK
Language : English
Editions Bessard – 2022
ISBN : 979-10-91406-97-0”