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Planet City
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Designed by
Stuart Geddes, Žiga Testen
Category
Best Designed Fully-Illustrated Book under $50
Year
2021
Publisher
Uro Publications

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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Design Rationale

Planet City is one part of a major commission for the 2020 NGV Triennial. Planet City speculates about the population of the world in 2050 (10 billion people), living in a single gigantic city, allowing the rest of the planet to ‘rewild’. Counterintuitively, the speculation is not dystopian. The book contains a diverse and global mixture of writing, from dense theory to science fiction, interspersed with immersive visual sequences from the city. Instead of a large ‘cinematic’ art book, this book is like a chunky pocket sci-fi paperback, with a solar panel cover and a special glowing fluoro CMYK separation.

Details
Dimensions
105 x 180 mm
No. pages
408
Credits
Internal Design
Stuart Geddes, Žiga Testen
Typesetting
Stuart Geddes & Žiga Testen
Printing
1010 Printing
Author
Liam Young