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Design Category
Promotional design and advertising, 1996
Design firm
After Hours Creative (Phoenix, Arizona)
Collection
(1997) The Greening of Design
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This brochure accompanied a prospectus to raise funds for building an environmentally oriented bed & breakfast. The brochure was designed to convey how a potential investor might feel when visiting the B&B several years after it was completed — sort of a travelogue.
The booklets were constructed of hand-made paper that incorporated soil and twigs from the B&B site itself. The booklets were then sewn together and hand-embossed from a woodcut of a native bird. The piece is closed with a twig, also from the building site. All printing was done with soy-based inks. Interior pages were of 100% recycled paper.