- Designed by
- Stuart Geddes
- Category
- Best Designed Independent Book
- Year
- 2018
- Publisher
- Broken Valley Arts
About the Designer
Stuart Geddes is a graphic designer and occasional publisher, mostly of books, and occasionally other kinds of projects (magazines and journals, exhibitions and websites). He also co-publishes/edits/designs/prints motorcycle magazine Head Full of Snakes, and is an industry fellow, researcher and PhD candidate at RMIT University.
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Broken is a book chronicling twenty-five years of ocean photography by Jon Frank. Combining memory, conversation and photographs immediately recognisable as his own, Broken not only explores the breaking wave but also the personal history of the artist responsible for creating these influential pictures. The design of the book treads a line between the pragmatic and the poetic, with simple shifts in paper and printing technique to bring out an extra richness in the black and white photography, or to note the text sections front and back. The typography is minimal but workmanlike, with an anonymous but robust elegance.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 185 x 260 mm
- No. pages
- 144
- Special finishes
- The cover and one of the 16pp sections is printed with two blacks, for added depth and definition in the photography. There is also a separate, cream uncoated stock for essays at the front and back of the book. The book is bound with flexible layflat binding, to give both the reader and the photographs the best experience.
- Credits
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- Internal Design
- Stuart Geddes
- Photography
- Jon Frank
- Typesetting
- Stuart Geddes
- Printing
- 1010 Printing
- Author
- Jon Frank