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My Role

• book design (cover & interior)
• illustration
• design and development of goodbyemadamebutterfly.com
• Japanese production management
• launch event (Tokyo) coordination, management

Author

Sumie Kawakami

homepage

http://goodbyemadamebutterfly.com/

from the back:

Goodbye Madame Butterfly offers a modern twist on the tradition in Japanese literature to revel in tales of sexual exploits. Kawakami’s non- fiction update on this theme is intimate and revealing, offering strands of hope for women struggling to liberate themselves from joyless, sexless relationships.

Production Details:

• 224 pages
• hardcover
• sewn in bookmark
• 11 intimate, non fiction portraits of Japanese women (and one man: the sex volunteer)
• slightly larger than a standard paperback but smaller than your average hardcover — perfectly balanced in weight and easy to throw (gently, of course) into your bag
• beautiful Japanese papers used for the cover, endpages, tobira, half-titles and body text

Goodbye Madame Butterfly was printed and bound in Tokyo, Japan by Yushin Printing.

The image of the woman on the cover of GMB was taken from a 100+ year old book on Japanese fashion found in the Jimbocho used book district of central Tokyo.

Typographic Minutiae

• body text: Feijoa
• titles: Parker-Barrow