Chinese publisher SendPoints has featured our work for Kanye West “Glow In The Dark” (published by Rizzoli), Jeff Koons (published by Gagosian Gallery and winner of the AIGA ’50 Books/50 Covers’ award) and Hannelore Knuts (published by the Mode Museum, Hasselt) in their publication ‘ART IN BOOK’.

SendPoitns selected work from 73 designers from around the world. The book is beautifully designed and the work as beautifully photographed. We encourage you to check it out if you can.

” ‘Art in Book’ aims to introduce the outstanding creative book designs around the world to readers. Every design in the book has distinctive feature in size, structure, binding, material and printing technology. It features exquisite pictures with explanations of material, printing technology, size and pages as well as the creative concepts in detail.”

The book of Kanye West’s Glow In The Dark Tour captures its scale and ambition with a generous 9”×13” format and a cloth-bound display slipcase box. A fourpanel gatefold foldout highlights the tour’s bad pres in a huge way. The book also comes with a CD that features four previously unreleased instrumentals from the show as well as an interview with tour collaborator Spike Jonze. A deluxe edition of the book ups the already luxurious format to an extravagant 12.5”×16”, and comes in a clamshell case.

In designing the visual identity for Jeff Koons’s “Hulk Elvis” exhibition at the Gagosian London (June 1-July 27, 2007), Base used a square text block to convey relevant information–name of the artist, title of the show, date and location. In contrast to the reverential don’t-touch-the-art approach of most gallery materials, this information was set as knockout text, and positioned over Koons’s work to reveal glimpses of paintings underneath, and to reflect the layers in Koons’s work. Base designed the applications for the show, including invitations, advertisements for major art magazines and daily newspapers, a poster, and catalog.

UltraMegaLore was an exhibition retrospective in the spring of 2010 celebrating the life and career (so far!) of Belgian top model Hannelore Knuts. The exhibition was curated by Hannelore herself for the Mode Museum Hasselt. Included in the exhibition was her work for designers including Azzedine Alaia, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Haider Ackermann, and with photographers including Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Juergen Teller, and personal mementos. We were hired to design the catalog and promotional materials for the exhibition.