In the early 1980s, an artist father lovingly illustrated the paper lunch sacks he sent with his 3 kids to school everyday. They kept many of them (especially the really great ones!) and all these years later, his daughter wanted to have them bound together as an artist book to gift to him, and also display as part of a 2016 retrospective show honoring his life's work.
I customized archival sleeves to fit the bags exactly, with a few conjoined bi-folds and tri-folds to keep diptychs and triptychs in order. Containing about 150 bags, the structure necessitated two large ring binders, and hefty magnets to latch everything together. I could hardly believe how much bookcloth this thing consumed!
The cover image is a composite of one of the original images, and a handwritten "Lunch" which is what the client chose to title the book. I really enjoyed the collaborative process while executing this project, and am proud of the (literal) size of this achievement!
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