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ANATOMY OF DESIGN
When is a relatively thick assemblage of bound consecutive pages printed with
type and imagery, which is usually called a book, not really a book? Well, that's
a silly question! It is always a book, though it may not be conventionally so. In
fact, many so-called contemporary books are designed to transcend the
accepted and venerated publication notions, but they are still books. This is how
Irma Boom's book/catalog (also known as a book-object) for the 2000 Storefront
Gallery exhibition of Inside Outside, the studio of progressive Dutch interior and
landscape designer Petra Blaisse, must be viewed. Despite its lack of binding
(like ...