A Retrospective

Client: Laguna Art Museum

280 pages

9.25”W x 9.25”H

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“Let’s create an object together” was the first thing I had said to Mr. DeLap when I first met him in person. Getting the correct “DeLap” blue for the cover was our primary priority. For the inside flaps and endsheets, I wanted to create a similar linear composition that one would find in one of Mr. Delap’s objects. Mr. DeLap envisioned a square book and, more importantly, an object that would feel right to him. We selected an uncoated paper stock to compliment the artist’s delicate pencil drawings, as well as an older document reproduced in Artform magazine. The coated paper stock used to reproduce his artwork printed superbly, doing justice to the artist’s rich and saturated color palette used in his large-scale objects.