City Secrets: Rome
Red Canoe, Deer Lodge, Tennessee, 1999
Description
Accepting the realities imposed by the small size of this guidebook presented the most challenges. Designing intricate and detailed maps in this page size, with one color presented a special challenge, since in order to be meaningful the maps needed to be easy to read. All excess information and visuals were eliminated. The design allowed the content to become the focus.
The design solution was to use the personality of the unique content. A reader can use this book to quickly locate an additional spot of interest nearby or to study an area of the city for the next day’s experience. Further cross-reference features allow a reader to directly look up a specific place or the full comments of a specific contributor.
Collections:
50 Books | 50 Covers of 1999
Repository:
Denver Art Museum
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Design firm
- Red Canoe
- Creative director
- Deb Koch
- Designer/illustrator
- Caroline Kavanagh
- Cartographers
- Caroline Kavanagh, Claire McConaughy
- Illustrator
- Cover and divider page illustrations derived from The Complete Encyclopedia of Illustration by J.G. Heck
- Photographer
- Fototeca Unione (American Academy in Rome)
- Production coordinator
- Deb Koch
- Editor
- Robert Kahn
- Trim size
- 4 x 7 inches
- Pages
- 288
- Quantity printed
- 10,000
- Compositor
- Red Canoe
- Typefaces
- Bell Gothic, Filosofia
- Printer/binder
- South China Printing
- Paper
- 128 grams Japanese Topkote MC art (jacket) and 90 lb. Swiss Biebert/Nymola Matte Art (text)
- Binding method
- Flexbound
- Binding materials
- Thread sewn, head and foot bands and two ribbons, Side material: Rainbow Brillianta #4045, Foil: Dye stamp and fill on spine, blind deboss partial and fill partial on cover, matte Black
- Endpapers
- 120 grams USA Union Camp Woodfree
- Publisher/client
- The Little Bookroom
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