A Better Tomorrow Book
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Mono, a lot of effort was put into getting a real publisher behind it. Just about every graphic design related publisher was approached and a few significant ones agreed to publish it. I forget what the deal was but it was something along the lines of "Sure, we'll publish it, it you pay for it to be published".
In the end what killed this project completely was over-ambition coupled with a total lack of any purpose. I don't mean the bolt-on purpose of raising money for the Patrick O'Brien Foundation, I mean it lacked a functional purpose as a book.
It was not about identity, or layout, or contemporary graphic design, or typography, or print, or... or anything... it was just a catalogue of random stuff, contributed by random people, with no core theme to sit upon. (10% of the work submitted was of a standard so embarrasingly low it would have dragged the entire project down anyway. Most was of an incredibly high standard).
When the project very first began, it was a very humble thing, and if it had remained a humble thing, it probably would have made it into reality, albeit in a humble way. Initially, it was just going to be a book of logos and typographic monograms, printed single colour, designed by QBN members, privately printed, and re-sold back to us in order to cover the production and distribution costs. Just a small book, simply printed, for our own enjoyment.
That was back in the days when this place had a strong community of regulars though. I think that pool has depleted somewhat and I'm not sure the camaraderie exists to underpin a book project now.
- Sorry if this makes little sense, I cut the 4000 word middle bit out at the last minute.Horp