Andys Book List

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Design

Fabrizio Albertini - Radici

ISBN 978 88 941882 8 8

  • Cannobina-valley near Lago Maggiore
  • analog photography
  • form and deformation

Tobias Bijl - Lost Takes

ISBN 978 90 827031 0 8

  • documentary book about the fall of Srebrenica
  • graduation project of a photography student
  • self published
  • Bound with a cloth spine
  • has a number of inserted loose documents
  • has a pasted-on but partially torn-off photo so that each copy is unique

Paper: 120gsm Munken Polar Rough (Antalis), 115gsm Cocoon Silk (Antalis) (interior); 240gsm Gmund Colors Matt nr. 34 (Gmund) (cover)

Paul Chan - New New Testament

ISBN 978 3 95239 715 2

  • lectionary-sized book body
  • perfect proportions
  • classic typesetting in Garamond
  • precise print
  • The art in the book turns the book into art becomes art through the book which produces the art

Anne Geene & Arjan De Nooy - Ornithology

ISBN 978 90 6906 049 1

  • book about science of birds
  • pseudoscientific approach
  • classifications form comical results through creative and associative thinking
  • typewriter script in a single font size

Martijn van de Griendt - Maria I Need Your Lovin

ISBN 978 90 813416 8 4

  • photojournalism
  • centre-stitch and trim well executed
  • interesting format: 145 x 240 x 21
  • shitty typography
  • shitty fonts: Minion Pro, Georgia
  • gold foil on the fore-edge and in the title

Paper: 120gsm Munken Polar Rough (Antalis) (interior); 170gsm Munken Polar Rough (Antalis) with foil stamping in gold by KuiperDonse, Utrecht (Kurz Luxor 425) (cover)

Bruno van den Elshout - New Horizons

ISBN 978 94 92051 04 2

  • 300 photos showing the horizon of the sea
  • 8785 pictures that were taken from the same spot every hour for a year
  • slipcase, banderole
  • book block without cover, dustjacket, thread or adhesive binding: spine just delicately fluted by the folded edges of the sheets

Titus Knegtel - Other Evidence: Blindfold

ISBN not given

  • about Srebrenica massacre in 1995
  • individual sheets of paper
  • bound with paper fasteners
  • wrap-around cardboard cover
  • careful typography

Paper: 80 g. Munken Lynx (interior), 300 g. Trucard 0 Felt (cover)

Christof Nüssli, Christoph Oeschger - Miklós Klaus Rózsa

ISBN 978 3 944669 42 7

  • photographer and political activist Miklós Klaus Rózsa was kept under surveillance for years by the Swiss State Security
  • on one side images by Rózsa, on the other side surveillance files by police
  • everything black and white

Anna Püschel - Layers of Reality

ISBN 978 94 92051 29 5

  • excellently lithographed and printed on Olin Smooth
  • beautiful synergy between photographer and designer

Paper: 115gsm Munken Print White 15, 120gsm Olin Smooth High White (interior); 100gsm Muskat Brown, 300gsm MCM GD2 (cover)

Marjan Teeuwen - Destroyed House

ISBN 978 94 92095 37 4

  • photographic series about demolished houses
  • she reuses demolished material to build new spatial houses
  • open spine
  • book block has not been trimmed on all sides (fore-edge uneven)
  • text pages – on the horror vacui principle – are typographically completely bricked up
  • well lithographed -> images pin-sharp

Paper: 150gsm Munken Polar Rough (Antalis), 120gsm BIO TOP 3 (Antalis), 115gsm Cocoon Silk (Antalis), 140gsm PlanoPlus (Papyrus), 115gsm Arctic Volume Highwhite (Antalis), 120gsm Arcoprint Milk 1.5 (Fedrigoni) (interior); 280gsm Invercote G (Antalis) (cover); 120gsm Munken Polar Rough (Antalis)