Cyrus Highsmith: Red Slab Caps alphabetzoo but still a good (and

but still a good (and rare) experiment in bookmaking

worked with Der Druckspiegel and a handful of American designers at the forefront of the bleed edge of the experimental downtown vanguard presented four 16-page booklets showing off what could be done with type and illustration and the latest technology which consisted of “cutting” and “pasting”—by which we mean literally cutting things and pasting things

But Robin Kinross is a smart writer (and a great publisher) and this particular copy was well-loved by Inge Druckrey as it’s marked up with extensive underlining

This is one of Kenji’s practice sheets

But it’ll involve some work

Cyrus Highsmith: Red Slab Caps alphabetzoo but still a good (andThese red & chunky slab caps are good clean fun. Hand printed by award winning type designer Cyrus Highsmith, this was published in an edition of just twenty six and we could not be more charmed. Historically we would have offered Cyruss prints framed in one of these, but they take up a lot of space here and were not sure anyone really cared one way or the other. But framed or unframed, this is a nice thing. And it pairs nicely with this.