Sort of as an inverse, I'm also reminded of this book "Memoires" by Asger Jorn and Guy Debord. It's largely about alienation and self-destructiveness in contemporary life, and the way that it manifests in the design is that the book is bound in sandpaper. It's not scratchy enough to hurt your hand, but the idea is that the book is destructive in a way. If you have it on a bookshelf among other books, it'll scratch their covers as you pull it out, or put it back into the shelf. If you leave it on a table, it could scratch that surface too, or the same of the inside of a bag. Eventually though the sandpaper will also lose its function over time, so while the book is destroying everything around it, it's also destroying itself.
goodinyou on November 10th, 2017 at 19:01 UTC »
I wonder if the end of the book is so powerful it compels the reader to burn the book wherever they are in a fiery display of passion
Peckchr on November 10th, 2017 at 19:01 UTC »
And this is how library fires start
eyelinedbrain on November 10th, 2017 at 22:30 UTC »
It's a nice design.
Sort of as an inverse, I'm also reminded of this book "Memoires" by Asger Jorn and Guy Debord. It's largely about alienation and self-destructiveness in contemporary life, and the way that it manifests in the design is that the book is bound in sandpaper. It's not scratchy enough to hurt your hand, but the idea is that the book is destructive in a way. If you have it on a bookshelf among other books, it'll scratch their covers as you pull it out, or put it back into the shelf. If you leave it on a table, it could scratch that surface too, or the same of the inside of a bag. Eventually though the sandpaper will also lose its function over time, so while the book is destroying everything around it, it's also destroying itself.