Book printers said Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Unmakeable” Book “could not be made.” Belgian publishing house Die Keure proved them wrong. Jonathan Safran Foer’s book is an interactive paper-sculpture: Foer and his collaborators at Die Keure in Belgium took the pages of another book, Bruno Schulz’s The Street of Crocodiles, and literally carved a brand new story out of them using a die-cut technique.
You can see more pictures of the Tree of Codes on Visual Editions’s Flickr stream. This is gasp-for-air-stunning. At least in my book.
(thank you martina, via fastcodesign)
Jonathan Safran Foer is a hero!
Looking forward to having the book in my hands.
Nov 21st, 2010 / 11:40 am
This is incredible. The only downside is the lack of a pre-order link. I’m hoping one will appear soon. :-)
Nov 21st, 2010 / 6:22 pm
very interesting visual object, too!
Nov 22nd, 2010 / 4:37 am
Simply amazing! I would love to find a French edition!
Nov 22nd, 2010 / 11:28 am
This is like a high tech, minimalist version of the Humument
http://www.humument.com/
Nov 26th, 2010 / 5:04 am
Beautiful. Would love to see this in person but would hate to be the guy that had to bind it!
Nov 29th, 2010 / 2:31 pm