- Designed by
- Stuart Geddes
- Category
- Best Designed Fully-Illustrated Book under $50
- Year
- 2018
- Publisher
- Surpllus
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.
View profile- Design Rationale
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Treatment documents a project in which six artists developed temporary commissions at the former Metropolitan Sewage Farm. The use of gold celebrates and riffs off the alchemical processes these artists went through to literally turn shit (the sewage farm) into gold (the artworks). The book structurally takes the reader on the bus tour of these works, in a series of photo essays from that perspective. In between are a series of texts and archival materials. The idiosyncratic typography, inverted materiality (coated for text, uncoated for photographs) and emoji cover all point to the rich irreverence of the projects and curation.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 152 x 230 mm
- No. pages
- 320
- Special finishes
- The cover uses a reflective gold card and white foil. Gold ink is used throughout the essay pages. 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
- Typesetting
- Stuart Geddes
- Printing
- 1010 Printing
- Author
- David Cross (editor)