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Design Category
Book design, 1999
Design firm
MIT Press Design Department (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Collection
(2000) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1999
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This book discusses fundamental issues in the philosophy of spatial representation, including an analysis of the interplay between mereology (the study of part/whole relations), topology (the study of spatial continuity and compactness) and the theory of spatial location proper.
It was a lot of fun creating this cover image of hand-cut paper typography. The low budget couldn’t afford a professional photograph, but thanks to PhotoShop my own amateur shoot was sufficient after some retouching.