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PRODUCTION DETAILS

Quantity

700
Board covers: 250
Vinyl covers: 150

Page Count

248 + cover

Paper Stock

Cover: Neenah Classic Crest DTC, Solar White, 130lb cover
Interior: Cougar Opaque Smooth, White Text, 80lb text
Cougar Opaque Smooth, Natural Text, 80lb text
Sterling Premium, Dull, 80lb text
Cougar Opaque, Smooth White, 80lb text

Number of Colors

CMYK + 1

Dimensions

6 × 9 × 1

Binding

Perfect bound

Special Techniques

Offset
Laser-cut
Front cover and spine Foil stamp


ADDL. DESIGN CREDITS

Dust Jacket Designer

Bonnie Lobbestael

Book Designers

Ryan Molloy, Denise Gonzales Crisp, Scott Massey, Steven McCarthy, Bianca Ibarlucea, Haynes Riley, Bonnie Lobbestael, Tuan Phan, Jimmy Luu


ADDL. PRODUCTION CREDITS

Foil Stamp and Die-Cut

Dexter

Laser-cut and Board covers

Maker Works

Acrylic covers

Ponoko


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LINKS

Ryan Molloy and Leslie Atzmon
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Book by/for Ryan Molloy and Leslie AtzmonBook by/for Ryan Molloy and Leslie AtzmonBook by/for Ryan Molloy and Leslie AtzmonBook by/for Ryan Molloy and Leslie AtzmonBook by/for Ryan Molloy and Leslie AtzmonBook by/for Ryan Molloy and Leslie AtzmonBook by/for Ryan Molloy and Leslie AtzmonBook by/for Ryan Molloy and Leslie AtzmonBook by/for Ryan Molloy and Leslie AtzmonBook by/for Ryan Molloy and Leslie Atzmon


CLIENT

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


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.


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.

PRODUCTION LESSONS

The folding of the dust jacket presented unique challenges because it directly impacted the design of the press sheet. Some initial folding patterns could not be executed due to production techniques. Locating laser-cutting vendors who could readily cut over 50 unique designs into book board also proved to be initially challenging.

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