Episode 31: Designer books
Aug 10th, 2009 by tedorigawabookmakers
Here are some extremely well-designed books bound on the theme of water and employing a large variety of material. From the Guardian in the UK.
Over at Kimbooktu is the world’s most expensive book: Norman Mailer’s Moonfire about the US landing on the moon; the book is complete with moon rocks and Buzz Aldrin’s autograph (Buzz was the second man on the moon - he also searched for Noah’s Ark.)
And after organizing my workspace to such an efficient degree that I can’t find anything, I got a commission to make five books with wooden covers in the next 20 days. No problem, that’s over four days a book if I didn’t have a day-job and wanted to sleep.
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