Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy is the catalogue for the exhibition of the same name presented by the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition explored the symbolic and metaphysical associations between fictional comic-book characters and fashion, and featured icons such as Superman, Spider-Man, the Hulk and Wonder Woman alongside the work of fashion designers like Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Thierry Mugler and Jean Paul Gaultier. The catalogue’s design affirms this alliance through the juxtaposition of fashion imagery, comic-book details, and film and TV stills in a comic-book frame format. Comics pioneered the fragmentation of time and space with multiple-frame compositions, and our design uses this strategy to show multiple perspectives on a single garment. The catalogue also features a pressed tin front and back cover that adds a tactile, three-dimensional element to the design. Of course this also doubles as armor or a chest plate (think Iron Man) and is reminiscent of a superhero lunch box

The use of materials and ink gives this book so much life.