Running on Cargo
WHAT?
WHITEY
RAMONES
TOWN
HORROR
REVOLUTION
CANDY
GRINDHOUSE
ABSTRACT
BEASTS2
500
POPEYE
NUMBERS
KRAZY
VERA
HELIX
POLLARD
L&R
AMR
WHAMO
MAULDIN
LUBA
BEASTS1
SUPERMEN
DENNIS
About the Designer

Robert Pollard (Guided by Voices) was named one of “The Top 50 Rock & Roll Front Men of All-Time” by Spin magazine. Town of Mirrors collects his collage art for the first time.

Cover is 4c glossy with arlin spine. The title is created from old letraset transfer lettering and torn from sticker sheets. This is printed as a 2c sticker (which was the closest thing to collage that we could budget for).

This was a unique experience in that Pollard's philosophical approach to the art making process had me engaged in creating the layouts more collaboratively than is typical of art books. The text is not tied to a grid but responds to the layout of the images. Also, song lyrics appear throughout, sometimes as I typeset them in the computer, sometimes scanned from the artist's own handwriting, and at times manipulated on the photocopier with a fluxist unpredictability (such as the warped text in the third spread, shown below).

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