Daniel Eatock Imprint: Works 1975-2007 (Hardcover)

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"Eatock, a young British designer, believes a silly idea can create something profound. His monograph of images and words includes Complete Roll of Brown Packing Tape Bow." -- Tara McKelvey --The New York Times Book Review: (September 26, 2008)

Designer Daniel Eatock visited Princeton Architectural Press's warehouse in Indiana to individually thumbprint the spines of every copy of his new monograph, Imprint, due out next month. (The book, by the way, is amazing.) -- Michael Bierut, Design Observer, August 11, 2008

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Daniel Eatock is a designer with a practised eye, able to switch from big bucks corporate and media branding - the Big Brother Eye, for example - to micro scale personal works that present an unvarnished view of the world. Eatock's work is also bound up in his website, Eatock.com, which solicits photography from like-minded individuals around the world.

As a result, the designer's first monograph has the feel of a carefully curated weblog, with images that revel in juxtaposition and coincidence paired with his own playful works. It also wouldn't be an Eatock project without a slight subversion of the repetitious nature of the printed book - each copy contains a hand-drawn circle, drawn by the designer himself at a marathon session at the printing plant.

The book chronicles a series of often personal, always conceptual projects that blur the line between art and commercial design. Written and arranged by the man himself, Imprint succeeds in depicting the diverse, scattered nature of his work.

British Design Star Eatock, In Glenside, "You've seen some of the strategies in Daniel Eatock's work before. The embrace of the vernacular everything, seriality, obsessive collecting and child's play recall earlier efforts by Charles and Ray Eames, Paula Scher, Andy Warhol, Walker Evans and Jan Dibbets, as well as those by such contemporary artists as Damien Hirst and Tony Feher. Written and designed by Eatock, the book features more than 1,000 images from more than 100 of his projects and tells you everything you ever wanted to know about him and his career. (He's collected his nail clippings, is a Formula 1 fan, hates smoking. He read Lucy Lippard's 1973 art-history classic Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object when he was 18 and it made him realize that "art and design were no longer disciplines that were motivated purely by aesthetics." He likes participatory projects.)"

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press; 1 edition (August 4, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568987889
• ISBN-13: 978-1568987880
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 8.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #592,782 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars New Light, December 8, 2008

By	Tim Waters (Perth, WA Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A book that is thought about in every way, shape and form. Makes you laugh, makes you think, and makes you re-think.

5.0 out of 5 stars Not just another design book..., October 21, 2008

By	Jonathan Sandridge "Jonathan Sandridge" (Burlington, VT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Great book! I read they whole thing front to back the first day it came in the mail. This book will inspire any designer to think more conceptually about his or her work. This is not just another design book that will shortly be outdated, I see this one in my collection for many years.