Going through the publication with Dominique, and there were several suggestions to improve the overall aim and concept of the publication.
It became apparent that despite the consistent placement of the typographic sculptures on the left and sculpture on the right allowing for a direct comparison between the two, the pacing of the publications reading remains constant, which can lower the readers interest.
Because the publication is about demonstrating the relationship between form of typography and sculpture, the scale, position and placement of the type sculpture could slowly merge into Noguchi sculptures across each example to demonstrate how, as the reader goes on, that the relationship between letterforms and typography become closer and closer.
This idea could extend to the back cover where sculpture and type become one.
There is also the need to clarify what the book is about, especially its narrative.
Is it about type, form and sculpture or type and sculpture?
Is it the book about Noguchi or about the question of the relationship?
The publication could also be extended into a series where a different sculptor could be represented by a different typeface.
There is no real need to make 3d typographic sculptures as the printed representations in the publication are significant enough. The physical sculptures may come across as a tacked on feature.
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