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Design Category
Book design, 1997
Design firm
Archetype Press (Pasadena, California)
Collection
(1998) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1997
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The book is a concerted effort by student designers to use foundry type to create a purely typographic statement about the essence of a poem and the overall form it assumes. Foundry type and letterpress printing enable the designer to both manually manipulate type and experience letterforms in visual communication.