Unsettled
Unsettled
Unsettled
Unsettled
Unsettled
Unsettled
Unsettled

Unsettled

Brad Bartlett Design, Los Angeles, California, 2017

Description

Unsettled is a large-format, 224-page book featuring contemporary artworks that explore ongoing legacies of colonialism, cultural tensions, and ongoing conflict in the Greater West—a super-region that stretches from Alaska to Patagonia. The cover typography reflects the region’s cultural and geological instability, while its gold foil stamping refers to the region’s rich natural resources and contentious history of precious metal extraction. A reverse-spine wraps around the fore-edge of the book, exposing its binding and suggesting an unfinished or ‘unsettled’ quality. The book includes a “scented” page crafted by scent-artist Bruno Fazzolari. Alaska-based Native American artist Alison Warden’s twitter poems flow through the book, framing and activating images of cultural artifacts and contemporary art, and suggesting the political and cultural observations about the collision of ancient and future.

Collections: 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2017
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book, Book cover

Credits

Design firm
Brad Bartlett Design
Creative director
Brad Bartlett
Designer
Brad Bartlett
Illustrators
Jay Kim, Jon Nishida
Production editors
Amy Oppio, Rainer Arnold
Author
JoAnne Northrup
Trim size
9.25 x 12.25 inches
Pages
224
Quantity printed
5,000
Typeface
Founders Grotesk
Compositor
Reproline Mediateam
Printer
Passavia Druckservice GmbH & Co.
Binding method
Reverse Spine
Publisher
Hirmer Verlag
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