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Design Category
Book design, 2005
Design firm
Futurepoem Books (New York, New York)
Collection
(2006) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2005

Description

Shanxing has a background in engineering and physics, and he liked my initial suggestion of a science-fair project for the cover.

Credits
Art director/creative director/designer: Anthony Monahan
Jacket designer: Anthony Monahan
Illustrator: Anthony Monahan
Photographers: Anthony Monahan, Getty Images
Author: Shanxing Wang
Editor: Daniel Machlin
Trim size: 6 x 8 inches
Pages: 132
Quantity printed: 900
Typefaces: Scala, Akzidenz-Grotesk
Printer: Edwards Brothers
Paper: French Speckletone
Binding method: Notch glue
Publisher/client: Futurepoem Books
Juror Notes

Front, back, spine, flaps and inner cover—each surface promises the reader a journey through an intriguing, semi-ordered universe.