Art Space Tokyo: Book Production and Design
May 2008
Online at: http://artspacetokyo.com
From the back:
Art Space Tokyo acts as your 272 page personal guide and interpreter, connecting you with the neighborhoods and figures behind some of the most inspiring art spaces in this colossal city.
Art Space Tokyo is a book I produced with editor Ashley Rawlings from Spring 2007 to Spring 2008. We spent the first quarter of 2008 working to complete the project by April. I acted as project coordinator, art director and designer.
The visual style and rhtyhm of this book draws from the philosophy of being an anti-guide guide. That is to say antitetical to the 'standard' guide format of glossy pages, coverage of many locations with relatively limted text, and (depending on the guide book) lots of photographs, Art Space Tokyo instead focuses on a small numebr of spaces, draws the reader close through in-depth interviews and essays and works with the imagination through sumi-e style illustrations, not photographs.
Project Details
- published by Chin Music Press
- printed in Japan
- 272 Pages
- two color silk screened cover
- one color foil stamping on the spine
- one color spot on end pages
- two color spot throughout
- sewn in bookmark
- 50+ illustrations by Takahashi Nobumasa
- body text: Fedra Serif B
- titles: Fedra Serif Display
- sans: Fedra Sans
We think the end result is something unique and, hopefully, a breath of fresh air to those looking for an alternative and art focused guide to Tokyo.
