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Designer and über-awesome creative-letterer Marian Bantjes just dropped a peek at a book she’s been working on for the past 15 months. She describes it physically:

It’s a gorgeous hardcover, with gold and silver foils on a satin cloth, with gilded page edges. It’s printed in 5 colours throughout (mostly CMYK + Gold) on a coated stock. At a smallish size (15.5cm x 24cm, or a little taller than 6×9), it is a book meant for holding and reading, curled up in your favourite chair.

As well as some of the ideas behind it:

The book is in many ways eclectic, with a variety of forms and moods, represented in an abundance of typefaces and graphic styles. But, much in the way of one of my favourite films, the documentary “Fast, Cheap and Out of Control” by Errol Morris, this disparity picks up threads one from another as it progresses, and starts to weave together in a unified whole. Ultimately the range of thoughts, personal history and hare-brained ideas come together. To the eyes, it is a feast for visual gluttons, but as those who are familiar with my work will already know, there is food for the mind and the heart as well.

I can’t wait to hold and see and ingest the real thing, and I’ve already pre-ordered my copy.

  • john white

    i'd like a taste of a book to curl up with. guess i quit long ago, w/a.rand

  • jeope

    Jeezum H. Christmas, that's a glorious-looking thing.

  • http://laurajlaura.tumblr.com/ laura

    oh. my. god. that is beautiful.

  • monimika

    I have no words to speak… It is simply beautiful!

  • richard

    You can call me crass and I will call this garish.

  • stephanie

    The intricacy of the book is amazing. Id love to know the proccess of how it was done?

  • Eric

    It's reminds me of book design when book design was first being experimented with. It's like a mixture of illuminated texts of the middle ages and page design of the 16th century.

  • http://www.bobbysandhulive.com/ bobby sandhu

    Book covers and Music Album covvers are art and this book is a perfect example of that.

  • Neil

    thats se hard work right thurr! lovely

  • scottbedford

    Only discovered Marian Bantjes recently – I'd definitely recommend browsing her website, her work is quite inspiring, even if her decorative almost fussy approach is not something you'd normally go for.

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  • steve

    “To the eyes, it is a feast for visual gluttons, but as those who are familiar with my work will already know, there is food for the mind and the heart as well.”

    Modesty is not one of her strengths for sure.