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Design Category
Book design, 1999
Design firm
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, New York)
Collection
(2000) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1999

Description

The biggest challenge was having to pair conceptual text with a very specific visual “story.”
I decided to use changes in scale as a way to relate the text to the photographs

Credits
Designer: Judith Hudson
Photographer: Katherine Wetzel
Author: Elizabeth King
Editor: Kathy Doyle
Production coordinators: Shun Yamamoto, Alyn Evans
Trim size: 7 3/4 x 10 inches
Pages: 88
Quantity printed: 5,000
Typeface: Gill Sans
Printer/binder: Dai Nippon
Paper: 157 gram Shiraoi Matte
Binding materials: cloth over 3mm board
Endpapers: Shiraoi Matte printed 1/1
Publisher/client: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.