Tower: Faith, Vertigo and Amateur Construction
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York, 1999
Description
The most difficult challenge was to avoid what I deemed to be the expected photographic, nonfiction to unusual subject matter. My parameters were drawn by selecting Guy Billout to illustrate this book. He set the tone by making the author’s relationship to his tower a metaphysical experience. I let his palette and message guide me to my solution—the midnight background tones lead the eye deeper into the piece; my use of the right-hand vertical panel hinting at the building’s siding further increase the depth. I put a touch of moonlight into the color of the type to complete the effect.
Collections:
50 Books | 50 Covers of 1999
Repository:
Denver Art Museum
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book cover
Credits
- Design firm
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Art director/designer
- Susan Mitchell
- Illustrator
- Guy Billout
- Author
- Bill Henderson
- Production coordinator
- Harvey Hoffman
- Trim size
- 5 x 7 1/2 inches
- Quantity printed
- 8,000
- Compositor
- Stratford Publishing Services, Inc.
- Typefaces
- Meta, Willow
- Printer/binder
- R.R. Donnelly
- Jacket printer
- Phoenix Color
- Papers
- Mohawk Cool White Vellum 80 lb., Press Varnish with Glossy under Lam (jacket stock), Glatfelter B-18 cream (interior)
- Binding method
- Adhesive burst
- Binding materials
- Dark blue (head/foot bands), Pearl Linen 47240 Midblueshadow (spine), multicolor homespun slate blue (sides)
- Endpapers
- Cream to match text
- Publisher/client
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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