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Bookmaking 101 |
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| Even before the invention of the
printing press, the basic design of a book,
at least in the western world, was fairly uniform – vertical pages,
bound along the left side and protected by durable covers. Within these
parameters alone, the variations are
limitless. Later technologies resulted in endless novelty, limited only by
man’s physiological abilities to lift a book, turn pages and read a
typescript. At the advent of the 21st century, even those limitations no
longer constrain us.
Our 117 yearbooks exhibit a panoply of graphic delight. Virtually every volume has something striking about it, something that sets it apart from the one before and the one after it. In general, Lewis Institute’s books are elegant and stylish. Those published by Armour Institute suggest a generous budget favored this particular student activity. The volumes published by Illinois Institute of Technology show frequent experimentation with style and materials as student designers individualized their efforts around their particular skills and interests. For all the variation, however, the collection as a whole can be viewed as having a unifying theme. The books constitute our university’s image of itself, a self-portrait, or more accurately, a whole series of them taken throughout the course of its still-in-progress lifetime. |
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| Page last updated on July 17, 2000. |
