Earlier this week, I received a review copy of Imprint, a monograph from British graphic designer Daniel Eatock that came packaged with several goodies. There was a set of pencils with labels identifying them as “note making utensils” and “picture rendering devices,” a CD with a one-hour “numerical time based sound composition” (a long string of logarithmically sequenced electronic tones), and a giant foldout poster that features all the lyrics to every Beatles song from “A Day in the Life” to “Your Mother Should Know.” Then, about halfway through the book, there’s a sheet of yellow paper onto which Eatock has hand-drawn a circle; apparently he did a bunch of these sheets and sent them off to be bound into the books at random locations.
Oh, and Eatock’s actual thumbprint is on the book’s spine. How do I know it’s really his, and not just a drawing or a bit of Photoshop? Princeton Architectural Press passed along this video footage of Eatock’s field trip to their Indiana warehouse: