Book by/for Ryan Molloy and Leslie Atzmon

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CLIENT

Leslie Atz­mon and Ryan Mol­loy are graph­ic design fac­ul­ty mem­bers at East­ern Michi­gan University.

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BRIEF

The book was to encap­su­late a mul­ti-year ven­ture that includ­ed an exhi­bi­tion, a work­shop, and schol­ar­ly essays sur­round­ing the book—in essence the con­clu­sion of an NEA Art­Works grant award­ed to Leslie Atz­mon and Ryan Mol­loy. The brief was sim­ply to cap­ture the spir­it of the Open Book Project.

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APPROACH

The book was con­ceived as three sep­a­rate books (exhi­bi­tion, work­shop, and essays) housed with­in a con­tain­er. The design of the essay sec­tion was crowd­sourced to sur­vey how broad and var­ied book design can be. The dust jack­et was designed as a press sheet that could be dis­played as a poster that cap­tures the spir­it of the work­shop in one glance or could be fold­ed and cut into a book. The laser-cut cov­er, pay­ing homage to abstract and dec­o­ra­tive book cov­ers, uti­lized a cus­tom script that con­vert­ed over 50 images from with­in the book into dif­fer­ent geo­met­ric patterns.