McSweeney’s 7
<em>McSweeney’s</em>, San Francisco, California, 2001
Description
Giving each story in this issue of McSweeney’s its own binding and cover is a great way to work with lots of artists at once and to make ten books when you’re supposed to be making one. The outer cover is just raw board with the type letter pressed into it. We wanted to have a thick rubber band holding the booklets together, but the printer, Oddi Printing of Reykjavik, felt they might buckle within the band, and recommended using a hardcover shell with the books slipped inside. We love the result; it looks like a book in mid-process, before binding—very raw. As always, it was a true collaboration between Oddi Printing, Elizabeth Kairys (who commissioned all the illustrations) and the authors.
Collections:
50 Books | 50 Covers of 2001
Repository:
Denver Art Museum
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Design firm
- <em>McSweeney’s</em>
- Art directors
- Dave Eggers, Elizabeth Kairys
- Designer
- Dave Eggers
- Illustrators
- Melinda Beck, Tim Bower, Elizabeth Kairys, Sharon Leong, Katherine Streeter, Chris Ware, Eric White
- Production coordinators
- Arni Sigurdsson, Oddi Printing
- Trim size
- 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
- Pages
- 335
- Quantity printed
- 15,000
- Typeface
- Garamond 3
- Printer
- Oddi Printing
- Papers
- Book Design Smooth 120 g/m2, Munken Lynx 170 g/m2, Kappa 2.5 mm (binders boards)
- Binder
- Oddi Printing
- Binding method
- Saddle-stitched, rubber band
- Authors
- Kevin Brockmeier, Michael Chabon, Ann Cummins, Courtney Eldridge, A.M. Homes, Heidi Julavits, JT LeRoy, Allan Seager, William T. Vollman
- Editor
- Dave Eggers
- Publisher
- <em>McSweeney’s</em>
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