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Buried treasure

Graphics.com is offering an excerpt of Charlotte Rivers’s Book-Art: Innovation in Design, a review of new and interesting book design. Highlights include a book whose entire print run (750 copies) was buried and then dug up before being sold.

From Book-Art, via Graphics.com:

Buried features a collection of photos by Stephen Gill that were buried by the photographer, near where they were taken. [Designer Melanie] Mues used this as her inspiration for the design of the book, and buried each copy before retrieving and presenting them in a clean, blind-embossed slipcase. The result is that each book has different degrees of smudging and deterioration on the cover.

The rest of the featured designs are less radical, but still excellent examples of a designer engaging with and enhancing a book’s text. Conventional book design is all very well, but sometimes a book just needs an ear growing out of its spine (see further down on the linked page).

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