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The Nine Circles
11/11/22
[Bookmaking]

Overview

Text extracted from Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania (Błoto słotsze niż miód. Głosy komunistycznej Albanii) by Margo Rejmer, published by Wydawnictwo Czarne, Warsaw, 2018.

Specifications

Type set by Marshall Barg in fall 2022 at Yale University.

Body text set in Canto ranging from 12pt to 25pt. Covers and section breaks set in Crima.

Body text printed on moonpeach paper.

Design

  • Text grows in size throughout the book

  • Government style 2 prong clip

  • Chosen typefaces are historically tied communism in europe

  • Cumbersome and entrapping card stock cover encloses smaller booklet










 Designed conceptually
to emphasize isolation, self preserving hope,
and arduous trials of imprisonment.
















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