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Design Category
Book design, 1996
Design firm
Archetype Press (Art Center College of Design) (Pasadena, California)
Collection
(1997) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1996
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This letterpress publication attempts to show a correlation between discrete movable metal type and musical notation. The harmonics of the letterforms mimic the composers’ words as if they were musical sounds expressed in the composers’ shorthand