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Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book, Tree of Codes has each page is precisely die cut to expose only a few words of From the Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz. Try that on a kindle.



Inspired to exhume a new story from an existing text, Jonathan Safran Foer has taken his favouriteA" book, The Street of Crocodiles by Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz and used it as a canvas, cutting into and out of the pages, to arrive at an original new story told in Safran Foer's own acclaimed voice. Tree of Codes is the story of 'an enormous last day of life'. As one character's life is chased to extinction, Safran Foer multi-layers the story with immense, anxious, at times disorientating imagery, crossing both a sense of time and place, making the story of one person's last day everyone's story. The book has a broad appeal: to both literary audiences, intrigued by Safran Foer's new way of writing and to design and art audiences who will revel in the book's remarkable and unique visual experience. Amazon

published earlier this week, jonathan safran foer’s new book tree of codes, pushes book design to new levels in an age
of digital publishing. the book appears quite average on the exterior, but once you flip it open each page is precisely
die cut to have only a few words exposed. the text inside the book is taken from the street of crocodiles by bruno schulz
and given a new interpretation through the unusual printing technique. the book was designed by sara de bondt studio,
published by visual editions and features cover artwork by gray318. after being shot down by almost every printer,
belgium’s die keure agreed to make the book using a different die-cut pattern on every page. the whole project took
over a year, but it demonstrates how a printed book can achieve things never possible on an e reader device.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/12249/tree-of-codes.html 

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