When we first set our eyes on this sculptural volume released by Visual Editions back in November 2010, our immediate reaction was, “How did they make that?!”
Here is an answer. This video, made by the publisher, documents the three months of production at Belgian printshop Die Keure. Printing, die-manufacturing, die cutting, trimming, binding: this book took countless hours of people power to manufacture. And that’s not counting the research it required! Visual Editions notes they were turned down by nearly every printer they approached, the stock line being “The book you want to make just cannot be made.”
This video proves that wrong. Watch it below.
