Depero Futurista - The "Bolted Book"

This section contains a facsimile of Fortunato Depero's Depero Futurista, also known as the Bolted Book because of the novel 'nuts and bolts' binding in homage to the mechanical age. Charting Depero's work from 1913 to 1927, it was published by Dinamo-Azari in 1927.

While the mechanical binding, itself a pure manifesto to mechanisation, makes the book famous, the layout and content of the book are a milestone in book making. The papers used vary in both colours and weights while the text, in black and red inks, employs different typefaces, font sizes and orientations to create geometrical patterns from the text itself. The result is a consummate work of graphic design.

  thanks to BookLab II