User:Simon/A Voice and Nothing More

A Voice and Nothing More

Printed: 19.11.19
Dimensions: 155x235mm
Cover stock: Ursus glossy white 210gsm
Text stock: Bio Top 80gsm
Binding: Perfect bound, cold glue
Pages: 226pp

This is another book where I took a text file and laid it out again in InDesign, like the copy of Dumbstruck that I bootlegged. However, this time I made a code to indicate the page numbering and text flow of the source publication. This was to provide comfortable, consistent tracking to the letterspacing - one of the issues with Dumbstruck was that, in an attempt to keep the text flow and page numbering the same, some paragraphs were too tightly, or too loosely kerned. I feel this is a more elegant solution, however, it might pose problems if someone else tried to do the same as I had (taking the text from a source publication and laying it out) as the code is now part of the text. The cover was made with glossy paper, and custom-cut vinyl stickers. In time these will probably come off, but that's conceptually sympathetic to the content of the book, which is about the transience of the voice.

Front cover, with white vinyl text and graphics
Spine
Code referring to text flow of the source publication
Bootleg acknowledgement
Spread: Book opens easily due to cold glue binding