Colossal reported on Beaded and Bound on 4 November. The exhibition of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson’s work opens at Fort Gansevoort in New York on 19 November. The feature includes sculptural books using fabric and beads.
For product and editorial designers, two kinds of reading meet here. We follow images while imagining weight, edges and material joins. A page isn’t only somewhere to tell a story: its construction can tell one too.
Remember this when a layout too easily passes for a finished object. At full size, a book gains the resistance of a fold, volume and neighbouring surfaces. Not everything needs moving onto a screen. An object sometimes succeeds because one screenshot cannot explain it completely.
