PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Electronic Landscapes celebrates Detroit’s techno, house and hip-hop musicians who construct home studios, renovate buildings and sustain community despite increasing pressure from land development and speculation. It sheds a fresh light on the city’s cultural significance and further contextualizes its current resurgence as featured musicians discuss their process and the significant link between race, space and cultural production. We designed the book to reflect this contextualization by acting as both visual narrative and referential object. The first section contains photographs of notable locations and figures in Detroit's techno history; they begin on the inside front cover with distant landscapes and continue on a lateral "tour" of Detroit (connected by the horizon line) down to interior spaces and intimate portraits. This is followed by the title spread and table of contents, two critical texts, six interviews, and two indexes—"Artist Index" and "Topography of Place"—that join the lines intersected through the rest of the book and provide context to the earlier sections. Reference numbers are placed throughout the book, allowing the reader to bounce between pages and make connections that are otherwise unrelated by proximity. We led directly into plates and placed the "front matter" in the center for this reason as well: to invite a freedom and fluidity of movement. Compositional and tactile choices—including staggered essay texts and repeated, debossed cover typography—create rhythm and reflect the music that holds together the communities, landscapes, and stories explored throughout the book.

BOOK INFORMATION

Trim Size: 11 x 13.5

Number of Pages: 136

Binding Method: Swiss

Paper: Colorplan, Factory Yellow, 350gsm, cover, uncoated; Arctic, Silk+, White, 135gsm, text, coated; Munken, Print, Cream, 115gsm, text, uncoated

Typefaces: Helvetica

CREDIT INFORMATION

Creative Director: David Yun; Zak Klauck

Art Director:

Book Designer: Kellen Renstrom

Jacket/Cover Designer: Kellen Renstrom

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Photographer: Isaac Diggs; Edward Hillel

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Other Credits: John Collins - Executive Producer, Contributing Author; Jason Hill - Executive Producer; Ryan Robertson - Executive Producer; Dora Apel - Contributing Author; Carla Vecchiola - Contributing Author

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