A Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities
Aufuldish & Warinner, San Anselmo, California, 2000
Description
The cabinet of curiosities was a 16th-century precursor to the contemporary museum, a collection of objects assembled to instill a sense of wonder and awe. The design of the catalogue alludes to collecting by having the art reproductions printed as separate stickers that are placed in the book by the user. (The stickers were not a cost-saving measure.) The art—by such artists as Damien Hirst, Katharina Fritsch and Yasumasa Morimur—supplies the wonder. The idea of an assembly is carried through to the section dividers, which are antique anatomical illustrations and pages from a catalogue of typographic decorative material. The concept even works down to the text face, a custom remix of one of my fonts, New Clear Era.
Collections:
50 Books | 50 Covers of 2000
Repository:
Denver Art Museum
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Design firm
- Aufuldish & Warinner
- Designer
- Bob Aufuldish
- Production coordinator
- Celeste P. McMullin
- Trim size
- 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches
- Pages
- 52
- Quantity printed
- 75
- Typefaces
- New Clear Era Mix Two, New Clear Era Mix Three, Engravers Gothic
- Printer
- Hemlock Printers
- Papers
- 100 lb. Mohawk Superfine Eggshell text sticker sheets, 60 lb. Mactac Starliner White Cinema
- Binder
- Lincoln & Allen Bindery
- Binding method
- Perfect-bound
- Binding materials
- Skivertex Silver Firenze
- Endpapers
- 100 lb. Mohawk Superfine Eggshell Text printed with one match color
- Author
- Ralph Rugoff
- Publication manager
- Genoa Shepley
- Editor
- Nancy Crowley
- Publisher
- California College of Arts and Crafts
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