Kitty Maryatt and Her Scripps College Press Students
Claremont, CA
Arch
*Juror's Choice Award Winner!
Arch is a collaborative book from the Scripps College Press about the book as architecture. Architecture, like books, is a delicate balancing act between stability and motion, interior and exterior, aesthetic values and structural practicalities. Books, like buildings, are fundamentally inhabited spaces. They are incomplete without human interaction. The students developed structural imagery using only paper by thinking with their hands. The Heather paper chosen was exactly the right stiffness for cut-aways and pop-ups. The tops of the rising sections were hand-cut to suggest a natural landscape where built structures fit into their environment, which changes as you manipulate the book into different configurations. We saw this as an effort at building a community. |
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