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Design Category
Book design, 1976
Art director
Claire Owen
Collection
(1977) The Book Show: Not Exactly Books

Description

The purposes of this book are threefold:
1. To demonstrate some of the capabilities of a new method for printing artists’ books which is direct, low-cost, low-technology, and which maintains the high fidelity of original images.
2. To produce a body of visual/verbal images which were conceived as a book.
3. To produce a high quality book which could be profitably sold at a low cost.

Credits
Designers: Daniel Tucker, Claire Owne
Jacket designer: Claire Owen
Illustrator: Daniel Tucker
Production manager: Daniel Tucker
Authors: Claire Owen, Daniel Tucker
Size: 5 x 4.25 inches
Pages: 16
Quantity printed: 200 handcolored, 2,000 black/white colored
Price: colored $9.00; black/white $1.00
Typeface: Text and display handwritten directly on printing plate
Printer: Daniel Tucker
Printing method: Text: rotary offset lithography; Black/white illustrations: direct image, nonphotomechanical offset lithography
Papers: Canson Ingres Laid, 24 lb. white, Strathmore Parchment cream
Paper manufacturers: Canson et Montgolfier, Strathmore Paper company
Paper supplies: TALAS
Binders: Daniel Tucker, Claire Owen
Binding method: handbound and saddle-sewn
Endpapers: 100% handmade laid paper with Turtle Island Press watermark
Endpaper manufacturer: Daniel Tucker