Through The Looking Glass
- Through The Looking-Glass
Book design & page layout - The Adventure:
To re-design a story from a public domain, with focus on text layout, original illustrations, and bookbinding.
The Course Of Action:
Re-designed Lewis Carroll's Through The Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). All was rendered by hand.
The Particulars:
7 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
Laser printing
Screen print
60lb vellum-finished text
67 pages
Perfect bind
Display type set in Clarendon
Body type set in Cochin
Pen and ink illustrations 
This Book Was Bound By Hand
From the back cover to the front, Alice passes through an abstract shape meant to mirror a looking-glass. Graphic elements were screen printed on a light, cotton fabric. Pages were printed on natural white, then perfect bound together. Leaves were ripped to resemble deckle edge.
Illustrations & Layout
The illustrations were hand rendered, realized in a theatrical approach, that is, the concept that all of the characters who Alice encounters are truly stage actors and actresses dressed in costume or attached with hand props. The text is meant to interact with images or story content.
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