Have a good gander at Bud Rodecker's gorgeous catalogue for Absent Nature

Date
23 October 2012

As if you’ve not already been spoilt for stunning books today we’ve got yet another fine example of printed, bound matter to get your juices flowing. This time it comes in the form of a beautiful cloth-bound hardback catalogue for fine artist Arik Levy’s Absent Nature collection. Exquisitely designed by Chicago-based Bud Rodecker, the volume affords Arik’s simplistic natural forms the space they need to translate onto a printed surface while the typographic treatments throughout the book echo the broken organic forms in the physical works. Don’t even get us started on the deboss on the front cover. Catalogues don’t get much better than this!

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Bud Rodecker: Arik Levy, Absent Nature catalogue

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Bud Rodecker: Arik Levy, Absent Nature catalogue

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Bud Rodecker: Arik Levy, Absent Nature catalogue

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Bud Rodecker: Arik Levy, Absent Nature catalogue

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Bud Rodecker: Arik Levy, Absent Nature catalogue

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Bud Rodecker: Arik Levy, Absent Nature catalogue

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Bud Rodecker: Arik Levy, Absent Nature catalogue

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Bud Rodecker: Arik Levy, Absent Nature catalogue

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James Cartwright

James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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