Jack Alexander

Extinked Almanac

2009 Nov

– book design, almanac, artist, ultimate holding company, typography, exhibition.

A 260 page artist book authored by Ultimate Holding Company for the exhibition Extinked. An exhibition that celebrated the bicentennial birthday of Charles Darwin with a study of some of the most endangered species in the UK. Typeset in Hoefler and hand-bound by Lucy May Schofield, the book's aesthetic references classical taxonomic publications. The edition features one hundred illustrations, a species' almanac and glossary.