The Legalization of Cake
John McClurg, 1976
Description
Severe limitations were imposed by budget. It is an experimental novel which combines both visual and verbal narrative, frequently exploring printed communication which is between the purely visual or purely verbal poles.
Special Features: book is a hand glued accordion fold which requires 15 hours labor to assemble per copy, each copy has hand coloring and printed pages unlike the other volumes in the edition.
Collections:
The Book Show: Not Exactly Books (1977)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer/illustrator
- John McClurg
- Photographer
- Jim Legault
- Author
- John McClurg
- Quantity printed
- First printing of 85
- Typeface
- Text handwritten and typewritten on direct image paper master
- Printer
- John McClurg
- Printing method
- Text: offset; Black/white and 4-color illustrations: direct image paper masters + 90-line per square inch photo Aluminum offset plates
- Paper
- Superfine, 80 lb. white, matte
- Paper manufacturer
- Mohawk Paper Mills
- Binder
- John McClurg
- Binding
- plain cardboard cover, accordion fold, grosgrain ribbon hinge
- Publisher
- John McClurg
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