youtube.com — A fore-edge painting is where the page block is fanned and an image applied to the stepped surface. If the page edges are themselves gilded or marbled, this results in the image disappearing when the book is relaxed.
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Closed AccountNov 1, 2007
I'm guessing from the painting that the book is Moby Dick.
mkameliNov 1, 2007
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firebhaalNov 1, 2007
It is the matrix
squarehappyNov 3, 2007
I've seen this on one other book, The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd. He's actually a prolific book cover designer and this is the only book he's written that I know of. This book has an additional twist: you fan the pages and the side will read "CAN YOU SEE?" Then flip the book over, fan the pages, and it'll say "GOOD IS DEAD".Kidd has a coffee table book of his work for which he uses plenty of cool design tricks as well. Well worth going to a bookstore and flipping through at least.<a class="user" href="http://www.amazon.com/Chip-Kidd-Book-Work-1986-200">http://www.amazon.com/Chip-Kidd-Book-Work-1986-200</a> ...