Imagine
Candlewick Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2005
Description
Norman Messenger began his career as an advertising art director in London before turning to freelance illustration. He is a highly regarded illustrator and was a founding member of the Association of Illustrators. Norman has had a long-standing love of visual puzzles, optical illusions, changing picture mechanisms and fantastic imagery, and Imagine is book that he has long wanted to make—a portfolio of his favorite visual tricks executed with exquisite care and craftsmanship.
Juror Notes
A bellyband with a mission. We had fun despite ourselves, repositioning this imaginative design.
Collections:
50 Books | 50 Covers of 2005
Repository:
Denver Art Museum
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book cover
Credits
- Design firm
- Candlewick Press
- Art director/designer
- Ben Norland
- Jacket designer
- Ben Norland
- Illustrator
- Norman Messenger
- Production coordinator
- Avril Litchmore
- Production artist
- Avril Litchmore
- Author
- Norman Messenger
- Editor
- Denise Johnstone-Burt
- Trim size
- 9.06 x 11.81 inches
- Pages
- 32, self ends
- Quantity printed
- 74,800
- Typefaces
- Monotype Columbus, Messe
- Printer/binder
- SNP Excel (Hong Kong) Ltd.
- Jacket printer
- SNP Excel (Hong Kong) Ltd.
- Papers
- 195 gsm Printkote artboard printed four colors plus matt aqueous varnish throughout, 130 gsm art paper plus matt lamination
- Binding method
- Interiors center sewn in two sections, butterfly binding, flaps/wheels assembled, square backed and fully cased, PLC over 3 mm
- Publishers/clients
- Walker Books, Candlewick Press
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