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Design Category
Book design, 1999
Design firm
Paula Kelly Design (New York, New York)
Collection
(2000) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1999
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It was a challenge to get across the spirit of Savion Glover’s approach to his art form to a young audience while holding its interest. I reflected this by developing a fairly traditional editorial/book format (with a bit of a twist here and there) and inserting large-scale elements throughout the book that serve to animate the page or provide a place to rest.
It became necessary to create a visual vocabulary to communicate Glover’s particular creative process, which entails a collaboration with others in a sort of “scat” dialogue, as he sounds out various taps or “hits” to the floor. This is reflected in the typography through an emphasis in type size, weight and color.