Post #321184 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Jul 25, 2007 5:58 PM

Well, to many people in the book business the BOT lay out seemed too "cluttered", and I was sort of lucky that Taschen was just opening shop in the US when I did my first book, and so I got to fly under the radar with my heavily layered, textured design.

I tried it again this time, but it was too far away from the "TASCHEN house-look" and it got shot down. And so now there are only very few pages that have a colored or textured background (I hope they got those right, at least.)

The reasoning was that too much background would diminish the impact of the images...which is debatable. To me, all white pages are just boring. But don't worry, it will not look empty, this book is so densely packed with eye candy that one hardly notices. I got to squeeze one hundred images more than the BOT into it. :)

P.S.: Taschen just opened their second TASCHEN STORE in L.A., at the Farmer's Market on Fairfax, in the clock tower.