This is an archives in a book, a booked presentation of a collaborative collection of artifacts and writings. It is a beautiful, even lavish, book, printed with full color on nearly every page, including bleeding double page spreads, beautifully designed, designed to be beautiful. It is deeply hetero-archivic, rich with photographs, drawings, interview excerpts, found documents, snippets of fieldnotes, and of course authorial analysis and commentary. It works, then, with many of our own design logics: it is excessive, and it is kaelidoscopic and juxtapositional, but of course always within limits. There are covers to the book, duh, and so the "editors" no doubt could not include all they had collected. And the juxtapositions are somewhat less clunky and constrained than what PECE affords -- text is in multiple fonts and sizes; sometimes text is overlaid on images here, but only on the large two-page spreads dividing the main sections of the book/archives; -- but it is still overwhelmingly columnar, boxy, and cleanly gridded, as PECE is. Text and images do not blur, and do not blur into each other; if an image is fuzzy it is probably because it is of an old newspaper clipping.
