This text-only record is part of the interactive AIGA Design Archives where you can view more details, zoom into images and explore other works in the definitive online resource on American design.
 |
Design Category
Book design, 2001
Designer
Douglas Fitch (Brooklyn, New York)
Collection
(2002) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2001
|
Whereas the exhibition “Organs of Emotion” was about ideas for a new anatomy based on human emotions, this book, the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, is about depicting emotions in the language of art. As such, the cover is intended to represent a kind of outer tissue for these invented emotional organs, with the book inside being a bladder of ideas. The holes in the cover are meant to facilitate osmosis of those ideas, and come partially removed to encourage interaction with the book’s absorbee.
What I like is that it looks like a feeling and it feels the way it looks.