Lang Ingalls
"160 Cat Proverbs by Jane Grabhorn"

Year created:  2010

Dimensions:  23cm h x 15.4cm w x 1.4cm d

Materials:  laced-in boards binding in grey goat, with colored inlays on cover; design elements include hand-sewn silk endbands, natural edges, leather hinges, and grey textured paper pastedowns and flyleaves; titled with onlays of blue goat on recto

160 Cat Proverbs, read through and digested, demanded a cat on the cover. The one I designed is  imagined, abstracted and inverted. Thin blue lines complement the outline of the creature, the same blue goat used for the title onlays. The title onlays were hand cut based on the font used for each proverb. The design implies the playfulness of the proverbs, both linguistically and of cats themselves.

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