Imagine an entire book on a poster, beginning to end, a bold art print upon which, up close, you can read the full and complete text of your favorite classic work and/or collectible rare book, from "It was the best of times..." to "it is a far, far better thing that I do…"
Spineless Classics has. Each one of the company's designs contains the full text of the book. Where there are shapes in the design the words wrap to the edges rather than being removed or shaded. The font size is roughly 4-point which is perfectly legible with the naked eye if you have 20/20 vision, or with light magnification if you don't. Superman, of course, can read them from across the street.
Spineless Classics now has over sixty books available and regularly creates new designs. Current titles include War and Peace, Jane Eyre, Phantom of the Opera, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, the King James Bible, Frankenstein, Gulliver's Travels, etc. If you have a specific book in mind and they don't have it they'll do their best to create a poster for you.
Origin of the Species, 1. |
The posters are printed on lush, satin finish paper with state-of-the-art printing technology. The text is pin-sharp and the paper non-reflective. You can hang and light it the way you want without fear of going blind while reading it. Unless you're actively reading The Story of O. Spineless Classics has yet to reproduce that particular classic, though I suspect it may be on the horizon, perhaps a custom job.
Origin of the Species, 2. |
The posters are either 100cm x 70cm or 84cm x 119cm. (A0), frame-friendly sizes. If you choose, Spineless Classics will have a frame handmade for you in black-finished wood.
Reasonably priced, a Spineless Classic on your wall will amaze your friends, break the ice and start conversations. The company is so confident you'll love these poster-books that they offer a full refund guarantee.
For jigsaw puzzle junkies, Spineless Classics offers Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. One look at it and you know it's going to be challenging; 672 pieces of text and white space. Ask the Caterpillar for a hit off the hookah to finish this one.
For the highly letter-ate, a set of Spineless Classics postcards is also available, three each of six titles.
Front and rear. |
I'm going to ask Spineless Classics to create a series of posters of the Yongle Dadian, the Ming dynasty book that 3,000 scholars spent four years working on, beginning in 1403, to produce 22,877 chapters in 11,095 volumes, using 370 million Chinese characters. It's the longest book ever written. I'm thinking wallpaper throughout Chez Booktryst, walls, ceilings, floors. Good news: materially as well as metaphysically finally living inside of a book. Bad news: can't read a damned word of it. Another nightmare for Mr. Henry Bemis in the Twilight Zone.
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Wow, those look amazing! I would love to these images printed large and I know a few people who would enjoy them as well!
ReplyDeleteI work for a printing company in NH called MegaPrint and we print custom wallpaper from photos and digital art.
These images would look amazing as wallpaper!
Good luck with the Young Dadian. I hope Spineless Classics will help you out!
I like the Idea of the jigsaw puzzle. You've really got to know your book backwards to manage to solve a jigsaw like that...
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