Bill Viola: Going Forth by Day book
Rebeca Méndez Communication Design, Altadena, California, 2002
Description
Bill Viola approached me to design the book for his exhibition “Going Forth by Day” for the Guggenheim Museum in Berlin. Viola is a video artist, so I gave special consideration to the implications of representing time-based work in a book format. His work explores the idea of the room as an instrument, as a living dynamic space where walls and the empty area they define are an active part of the experience. My thinking was to activate unexpected surfaces and “corners” of the book through sequence, image, text and materials. Multiple images are full-bleed and placed in a cinematic flow, while vellum sheets with text are interlaced with the images.
Collections:
50 Books | 50 Covers of 2002
Repository:
Denver Art Museum
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Design firm
- Rebeca Méndez Communication Design
- Creative director
- Rebeca Méndez
- Designers
- Snow Kahn, Rebeca Méndez
- Production coordinator
- Guggenheim Museum
- Production artist
- Snow Kahn
- Trim size
- 9 x 10 3/4 inches
- Pages
- 136
- Quantity printed
- 10,000
- Compositor
- Cantz
- Typeface
- Knockout
- Printer
- Cantz
- Binder
- Cantz
- Binding method
- Smyth-sewn
- Jacket designer
- Rebeca Méndez
- Jacket printer
- Cantz
- Author
- Bill Viola
- Editor
- Kira Perov
- Publisher
- Guggenheim Museum
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