Sat eating some porridge on Saturday morning I turned to a double-page spread of ghoulish faces and scrawled, bloody text and was so excited I spat oats. I am very much looking forward to Guillermo del Toro's dark adult fairy tale, Pan's Labyrinth; I also deeply love looking at people's journals and sketchbooks. What I am interested in is the relationship between the concept of meditating on the doing — the making — the agenda setting, which becomes a kind of battle to get to the idea — the heart of the ideal that lies deeper in that proposition. I was studying overviews on Steve Jobs, Apple strategy, some thinking about leadership and the reflection in consumer relationships and Apple marketing, but more particularly about the premise of the "design of leadership" -- or better still, leadership in design.

That is why we are committed to providing deeply reported, carefully fact-checked news that is freely accessible to everyone. Ever since Cronos gave me nightmares as a nine-year-old I’ve been a tentative and latterly whole-hearted fan of Guillermo del Toro’s films, so to have the opportunity to sneak a peek into his haunted mind via the busy pages of his sketchbooks is an absolute treat. Unlike Paul Thomas Ander­son, with his infu­ri­at­ing­ly per­fect sense of visu­al bal­ance, or Alfon­so Cuarón, whose Oscar-sweep­ing Grav­i­ty required the inven­tion of a nov­el, hyper-real­isti c film­ing method, del Toro doesn’t deal with real life. I’ve written and spoken publicly in the past about the concept of the journal — the annotated sketchbook — as a place of making ideas. This is why we keep our journalism free for everyone, even as most other newsrooms have retreated behind expensive paywalls.The director, who at the time wasn’t even sure he’d actually make “Pan’s Labyrinth,” took the cabbie’s act as a sign.

His future projects include a new version of Beauty and the Beast, a new version of Frankenstein (referencing Bernie Wrightson) and he is (tentatively) working on a film adaptation of H. Guillermo del Toro is the acclaimed director of The Shape of Water, Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim, and Crimson Peak. But in a manner, the idea of the journal is less about the actual professional work, and more about the personal work. I like to say that we only make one movie in our lifetime,” says Guillermo del Toro, “a movie made of all the images of all our movies. Some new sketches depicting "Pacific Rim" (sans the seizure-inducing special effects) have made their way to the internet, once again proving that del Toro is a visual artist to be reckoned with.As he explains in the video above, the 256-page hard­cov­er is a selec­tion from his note­books, where the direc­tor devel­oped many of the mon­strosi­ties we’ve seen on screen. del Toro is an eccentric director of sporadic brilliance — Cronos and The Devil's Backbone are brilliant, but he managed to mangle Mike Mignola's Hellboy into a travesty — but I am extremely charmed by the haltering Mexican lilt of his describing of his wonderful sketchbook. Album on Imgur If you're seeing this message, that means JavaScript has been disabled on your browser, please enable JS to make Imgur work. In the past, I’ve drawn journals that are gathering places for ideas, as well as project plans and notations.