Preview
Creation Date
2019
Description
AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY AWARD Purchase Prize $375 | Purchase prize winners receive a cash reward and the books are added to the Fleet Library at RISD Special Collections' Artists' Book collection.
Student Status
Continuing Education Certificate student
Year of Graduation
2019
Major
Graphic Design
Faculty / Course
Dina Zaccagnini Vincent
Materials + Techniques
Richard Langdell handmade paper, Hangayoushi Soft White paper, polyester thread, laser prints, letterpress prints
Student Narrative
Built around the concept of loneliness, this piece communicates the creature’s social and physical isolation. Using direct quotes from the character, the type-as-image landscape mirrors the lonely mountainous terrain of the book’s pivotal scene. Presented folded accordion-style, the double-height center piece forces the reader to open it flat. The fully open work is eight feet long, giving a sense of perspective both to the creature’s monstrous size and his long and lonely wanderings. The slipcase is made from a vintage cotton paper with wonderful texture, and offers another echo of stone—delicate flecks of refective material glitter like quartz shards embedded in granite. The accordion is laser printed on machine-made mulberry paper. The slipcase is letter-pressed with hand-set type. This mixing of the industrial and artisan, digital and analog, is another reference to the creature that is literally pieced together by his creator.
Keywords
artists' books, Baker & Whitehill