Notes on Book Design

Insightful texts of 2.200 characters on book design, exploring the visual, tactile, and cultural aspects of books through the perspective of a graphic designer.Fifty readings on book design, authored by Siri Lee Lindskrog and Amanda-Li Kollberg of Formal Settings, unfold across the pages of this volume. Drawn from a curated selection of titles in the private collection of Hopscotch Reading Room - a conceptual bookshop and event space in Berlin - each text focuses on a single book, examining its visual and tactile qualities, from materials and layout to binding and typography. "Our aim is to understand the role and potential of books through a design lens, mapping what they communicate through their physical form." The authors guide readers through the intricacies of book design, showing how form can become message - how a book can serve as a vessel, a statement, and an object of beauty in its own right. They explore and examine each b