Brown Face, Big Master book
Helicopter, New York, New York, 2002
Description
Published in 1972, Joyce Gladwell’s memoir, Brown Face, Big Master, was an unexpected best-seller in both Jamaica and England. Nonetheless, the publisher went bankrupt and the book never got a second printing. Roughly 30 years later, her son Malcolm, now a best-selling author in his own right, set out to republish an edition of 500 copies. The studio was commissioned to redesign the book from scratch, with a new introduction and a section of historical photographs; the new edition was intended for friends, family and prominent university libraries. The design juxtaposes a classic sense of book packaging with a contemporary graphic look. The end result elicited an unexpected prize: a handwritten letter from the author meticulously noting and praising everything from the color of the paper to the width of the margins. A more gracious client has never been had.
Credits
- Design firm
- Helicopter
- Creative director
- Helicopter
- Designer
- Helicopter
- Illustrator
- Helicopter
- Production director
- Vince Bailey (Impact Publishing)
- Trim size
- 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches
- Pages
- 228
- Quantity printed
- 500
- Compositor
- Digital Color Technologies
- Typeface
- HTF Requiem
- Printer
- Elegance Printing (Hong Kong)
- Papers
- Cream Woodfree (Indonesia) 100 gsm, 2/2c Black and PMS 288 Blue, Rainbow 124.4 gsm
- Binder
- Elegance Printing
- Binding method
- Hardcover, squared back, section-sewn, separate ends
- Jacket designer
- Helicopter
- Jacket printer
- Elegance Printing (Hong Kong)
- Author
- Joyce Gladwell
- Editor
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Publisher
- Doctor Bird Press