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Design Category
Book design, 2001
Design firm
The Perishable Press Limited (Mount Horeb, Wisconsin)
Collection
(2002) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2001

Description

Every book poses the special question of how to convert the integrity of meaning from idea to physical artifact with the guiding gnomon of appropriateness. The solution has to do with egolessness in listening, love and respect of text, and a crafting that allows for the dignity of risk. The audience is fellow-subversives who absolutely love to read books and who are addicted sensualists devoted to the extension of text.

Credits
Designer: Walter Hamady
Illustrator: John Wilde
Production coordinator: Walter Hamady
Trim size: 7 1/2 x 11 inches
Pages: 124
Quantity printed: 95
Compositor: Walter Hamady
Typeface: Gill Sans
Printer: Walter Hamady
Papers: Aikoi Handmades, Twinrocker Handmades
Binding method: Handsewn in heavy Twinrocker “Tinkertape”
Authors: Walter Hamady, John Wilde
Publisher: The Perishable Press Limited