#visual editions

[ice-cream-books]

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes with a Churro Cone lance from ChikaLicious. Cover by Gray318. Photography by Jacob Robinson.

[leah-jkkim]

A new way to read a [digital] book.

play and read a book_’Entrances & Exits’ by Reif Larsen that makes readers enable to travel on the google street view while reading this book on the smartphone. It seems a good try and an interesting idea to expand the barriers of use of e-book

More info about ‘Editions at Play’ by Visual Editions is here.  

[2dotsblog]

Tree of Codes Book by Jonathan Safran Foer

Unlike any other book, Jonathan Safran Foer's Tree of Codes is part story part creative sculptural object. Published by Visual Editions .This is definitely a game changer and revolutionary. Click here to get your copy

[qved]

Speaker: Jeremy Leslie of magCulture studio

Jeremy Leslie (*1961) has been designing magazines since the mid eighties, when he was art director at Blitz magazine. Since then he has worked on newspapers, weeklies, newsstand and customer titles. During the noughties he helped develop John Brown Publishing as a leader in content marketing, and as creative director worked on award-winning publications for Virgin Atlantic, M-real and Waitrose.

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[overonehundred-blog]

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen - Visual Editions:

Visual Editions' glorious 688 page editorial exploration of Tristram Shandy shows off their design talents from beginning to end. With a combination of techniques such as overprinting, spot colour and cropping, the novel has been developed far past its original visual language, and has become a vehicle for visual interaction.

'Tristram Shandy was first published in the late 18th century in nine volumes and is still, we think, one of the best (and probably the first) examples of visual writing around. The sad thing is, though, Shandy has long been republished in cheap and nasty classic editions, so our re-imagining punks it up a bit, while still staying faithful to its original spirit.

Visual Editions' Tristram Shandy is filled with visual jokes: a closed door is illustrated by a folded page; beads of sweat by spots of varnish; and the famous “black page” replaced by two pages on which the text is over-printed in black.'

- Visual Editions

This book is layout and editorial design at its best, something Visual Editions know a lot about; to see more of the book on Visual Editions' website, click here.

[acehotel]

Shoreditch, London

From the vast, incomprehensible cartography of the globe to the quiet cognitive maps of the everyday, we map for comfort — to afford ourselves the illusion of place. They're the red dots we use to assure ourselves that "You Are Here" — and that everything else is relative and predictable. 

With Where You Are (a must-see website), the pictorially preoccupied storytellers at London publishing house Visual Editions take on the idea of mapping from the perspective of 16 different writers, artists and thinkers — in fiction and non-fiction writing plus a variety of visuals — to create "a book of maps that will leave you feeling completely lost." Featuring contributions from Chloe Aridjis, Alain de Botton, Joe Dunthorne, Leanne Shapton, Geoff Dyer, Olafur Eliasson, Sheila Heti + Ted Mineo, Tao Lin and a host of others, the book is a beautiful, mixed-up marvel of a thing.

The lobby gallery at Ace Hotel London Shoreditch opens up the atlas of Where Are You for the month of April, putting the collection's rich visual components on display twenty-four hours a day. The opening reception is coming up on Wednesday April 2 at 6pm, complete with cocktails, conversation and a few readings.

[aliteraryescape]

The making of Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer. Watch the last three months of production in just three minutes.