The Colosseum Book

The Colosseum Book

Tassinari/Vetta, Trieste, Italy, 2017

Description

"The Colosseum should be demolished and built again in plastic": Goffredo Parise’s neo-Futurist outburst dates back to the 1960s, when Pop Art in Rome chose the Colosseum as a fetish of Italian culture. With this in mind and starting from the cover, the fragments collected in the book are classified in the layout itself: iconographic materials and pages of literature are arranged in eloquent associations, where the printed word is treated like an image, both continuously presented in relation to the monument.

Collections: 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2017
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book cover

Credits

Design firm
Tassinari/Vetta
Art director
Paolo Tassinari
Designer
Fabio Furlanis
Author
Nunzio Giustozzi
Trim size
6.7 x 9.4 inches
Pages
256
Typefaces
Akzidenz Grotesk, Adobe Caslon
Printer
Elcograf S.p.a.
Papers
Sappi Magno Volume 130g, CMYK offset print (text block), Glossy cardboard, CMYK + Pantone spot color print (cover)
Binding method
Paperback
Publisher
Mondadori Electa S.p.a.
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