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Design Category
Book design, 2006
Design firm
Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Collection
(2007) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2006
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Emily Dickinson made this herbarium collection (her first book) between the ages of 12 and 14. Reproducing it in actual size meant designing the scant editorial text on a huge page; the wide bleed band of delicate color on the outside of these textual pages provided an elegant way to reduce the surface and provide a warmer feeling to a book that borders on science and poetry.
"Handsome! Crunchy!”