BOOK DESIGN
As avid (if not compulsive) readers and purchasers of books ourselves, book design is extremely important to us. We have been fortunate to draw on our obsession with the book-as-object and storytelling medium to collaborate on visual books with authors and publishers.
Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg by Pat Thomas
Published by powerHouse Books
Taxi: Journey Through My Windows by Joseph Rodriguez
Published by powerHouse Books
A Cab Driver’s Visual Memoir
Shift 7 collaborated with acclaimed documentary photographer Joseph Rodriguez on the his visual memoir of work as a cab driver in early 1980s New York City. Taxi is designed as a cinematic tour through the city from the driver’s seat of a yellow cab. It has been featured by The New York Times and Vanity Fair, and PrintMag’s The Daily Heller published an interview discussing our collaboration.
