Polar Inertia: Migrating Urban Systems
Willem Augustus, Los Angeles, California, 2007
Description
In Polar Inertia: Migrating Urban Systems, Los Angeles architect Ted Kane takes a look at the expanding meaning of urbanity in a wireless world predicated on total mobility. Photographs of RVs, border camping sites, camouflaged cell-phone towers and taco trucks are paired with three corresponding essays in a book where big headlines shift from page to page, post-package wrapping paper is used, and the image grid jumps from small images to double-spread bleeds in a rhythm that suggests motion and movement.
Juror Notes
Existing modernist typography and gritty photographs combine to make a visual feast.
Collections:
50 Books | 50 Covers of 2007
Repository:
Denver Art Museum
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Design firm
- Willem Augustus
- Designers
- Henri Lucas, David Whitcraft
- Photographer
- Ted Kane
- Author
- Ted Kane
- Trim size
- 7 x 8.5 inches
- Pages
- 86
- Quantity printed
- 2,000
- Typeface
- Lux Sans
- Typeface designer
- Greg Lindy
- Binding
- Case
- Publishers
- Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, RAM Publications
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