Grimm Brothers. Made of black ebony.
And whilst she was sewing and looking out of the window at the snow, she pricked her finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell upon the snow. And the red looked pretty upon the white snow, and she thought to herself, "Would that I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood of the window-frame. " Soon after that she had a little daughter, who was as white as snow, and as red as blood, and her hair was as black as ebony; and she was therefore called Little Snow-white. And when the child was born, the Queen died. After a year had passed the King took to himself another wife. "Looking-glass, Looking-glass, on the wall, Who in this land is the fairest of all? " the looking-glass answered— "Thou, O Queen, art the fairest of all! " Then she was satisfied, for she knew that the looking-glass spoke the truth. it answered— "Thou art fairer than all who are here, Lady Queen.
Then the Queen was shocked, and turned yellow and green with envy. Fillerati - Faux Latin is a Dead Language. The Secret Law of Page Harmony. “A method to produce the perfect book.”
The perfect book. This is how designer-genius Jan Tschichold described this system. Not the ok book, nor the pretty good book, but the perfect book. This method existed long before the computer, the printing press and even a defined measuring unit. No picas or points, no inches or millimeters. And you can still use it. The Secret Canon & Page Harmony Books were once a luxury only the richest could afford and would take months of work to be brought to fruition. And they were harmoniously beautiful. The bookmakers knew the secret to the perfect book. So elegant is this method of producing harmony that a few designers saw to rediscover it.
They found the way to design a harmonious page. There’s a dance to all this Let’s look at this dance, shall we? And here it is with them (using the Van de Graaf Canon and Tschichold’s recommended 2:3 page-size ratio, which we’ll get into next). This is where the harmony is found. How is this dance beautiful? The J. Well. Franz Kafka's THE METAMORPHOSIS adapted by Peter Kuper.
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