Rightness and Lightness: Thoughts on the Book as Object of Use kabakabakaba invites play and imagination

invites play and imagination

We’re just gonna rip this description straight from Jerry Kelly’s One Hundred Books Famous in Typography because it’s cold and our fingers are stiff and we can just copy this text from the book with our camera and paste it here:

Designed by a master typographer (who also designed the presented faces)

This bi-annual independent art/design publication which began life as a graphic design magazine

the letter is incomplete

Rightness and Lightness: Thoughts on the Book as Object of Use kabakabakaba invites play and imaginationHeres another Jost Hochuli we lovebut this time we love it not for the design and production (although they are very fine)but for the thoughts of bookbinder Franz Zeier on the topic of books made in the service of something greater than themselves. Composed of short, easily digestible notes about every aspect of bookmaking, its an easy and motivating read. And it is annoyingly uncommon. We were gifted a copy ages ago, and this is only the second copy