ELECTRIC WORD
You're looking at the world's smallest book - a leather-bound volume roughly the size of a match head. Tinkering with publishing traditions is business as usual at Die Gestalten Verlag. Founded seven years ago by Robert Klanten, an industrial designer by training, the tiny German publisher of esoteric design books has put out 100 titles since its inception. One recent release is DSOS1, a catalog of futuristic fonts that is tricked out with a vinyl mousepad cover and sold with an Internet-ready CD-ROM. Die Gestalten's latest titles variously feature shiny vinyl as well as plush velvet covers, see-through bindings, six-color printing that faithfully renders RGB, and pearlescent pigments. Another entry is printed in a polygraphic ink, previously used on Burton ski boots, that changes from clear to metallic when it's exposed to sunlight. As Klanten says, "We'll try anything that printers hate having to do."
ELECTRIC WORD
The Good, The Bad, and The Evil
Light Reading
Picture Window
Rear Projection
The Red Team
Stunt Double
