American Contemporary Furniture
American Contemporary Furniture
American Contemporary Furniture
American Contemporary Furniture
American Contemporary Furniture
American Contemporary Furniture
American Contemporary Furniture

American Contemporary Furniture

Cabra Diseño, San Francisco, California, 2000

Description

The most challenging portion of this job was to create an interesting pacing that would allow a more organic flow of objects based on conceptual, formal and material decisions. The visual complexity of the design acts as a glue bringing together material of various levels and qualities, creating a unique language reflective of the energy particular to each region of the country. The flow of the book grows from not only a visual understanding of the images, but from a conceptual engagement of what they represent. The overall system we created to integrate images and typography was an evolving structure that changed as the book progressed and new elements were introduced into the mix. The underlying grid creates a kind of play with the surface elements and grows and becomes visible by the intersecting of images and graphics.

Collections: 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2000
Repository: Denver Art Museum
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Design firm
Cabra Diseño
Art director
Raul Cabra
Designers
Santiago Giraldo, Jeremy Stout, Raul Cabra
Photographers
Richard Barnes, Dino Dinco, James Chian, Debra Seidman
Production coordinator
Dung Ngo
Trim size
8 1/2 x 8 1/2
Pages
208
Quantity printed
7,500
Typeface
Bell Gothic
Printers/binders
Sfera International, Italy
Paper
150 gsm Matte
Binding method
Hardcover imitation cloth over 3 mm gray board, sewn h/t bands, paperback-sewn cover-scored 14 pt. c1s
Endpapers
140 gsm Wood-free 1/1
Editors
Raul Cabra, Dung Ngo
Publisher
Universe Publishing
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