
To say this was a whale of a book to assemble, design, and produce is an
understatement. The only thing easy about this entire project was conceiving the
premise. Showing the evolution of a single piece of design through past and
present history seemed like a great idea at the time. Even to anatomize the work
by revealing where different traits or components came from seemed quite doable
at the time. But once we opened the body, so to speak, and found there were
more than one, two, or even three historical connections, ...