Kuhaku & Other Accounts from Japan
Design, Illustration
& Production
& Production
September, 2004
Tokyo, Japan
About
Kuhaku was the first book I ever designed. In many ways it represents what I felt at that time were the ideals of the book as a format and object.
- It's small as to be easily pocketable and to feel intimate.
- It's cloth bound — literally. The cover is a grey cloth onto which we had printer Oddi in Iceland silkscreen three colors. They then foil stamped two colors on top of that.
- The interior pages are a nice, heavy, matte paper.
- The typography is simple, classic and clean.
- The artwork and illustrations integrate directly with the text.
Blurbs
Japan emerges in fits and starts, stripped of its abstractions, defiant, utterly unique, and surprisingly tender.
— Joseph Badtke-Berkow, Paper Sky magazine
Actual cover — clothbound, three color silk screen, two color foil stamp
Cover illustration
Title page
Illustration spread
Interior shot
Chapter opening illustrations (culled from the cover illustration)
