Invisible Cities Book>>
Since Invisible Cities is a compilation of stories about the same city, I wanted to use the copy Fedora & Olinda to describe how I feel about my present homeland, North Carolina. The cover rag paper was a great find in the computer lab and varied in pattern from one copy to the next.
nc state project: Typography I; duration of three weeks.
assignment: Read Invisible Cities by italo calvino. Pick two tales, use the copy and design a 5" x 7" book with font speciem. Print out three copies and bind them with a simple stitching & folding method.
sample: 1 of 3 in an edition. [top] Outside cover with beautiful topographic map of the Blue Ridge Mountains on rag paper. [middle] Front page and inside cover. Choppy black line representative of Italy's canal system. [bottom] Middle page of book with font speciem.