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An Artist Printed the Complete RGB Colorspace Into Books and it Looks Amazing

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New York based American artist, Tauba Auerbach has created a three volume set of hardback books, as 8x8x8 inch cubes, in a project entitled the “RGB Colorspace Atlas“.

Each volume contains 3632 pages, and represents a look through the colour scheme of each of the three different colour channels; Red, Green and Blue.

 

While it must’ve been a bit of a nightmare for the printer, these digital offset printed books create a very colorful reference volume of all colours of the RGB spectrum.

Red

red

Green

green

Blue

blue

The special binding was co-designed by the artist herself in collaboration with Daniel E. Kelm, and printed at Wide Awake Garage.

While this project was completed a little while ago now, I’ve still not seen copies floating around on Amazon.

 

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  • szakee

    nice waste of paper

    • Kaouthia

      Careful, some might choose to say the same about any photographs you print. :)

      • szakee

        I only ever printed a photograph of mine once, and it hangs on my wall.

        • Jayson Carey

          Well why did you waste that paper, then?

        • KCWang

          Depriving the world of a masterpiece. A pity.

  • Sean

    I only have one question…why?

    • Jayson Carey

      It’s an art piece.

  • A book, eh
    … the premise of the book look’s interesting, a real page-turner?

  • Jeff Lear

    I was hoping for a fanciful illusion, like a flip book where the colors morph and writhe across the pages as they slip past your thumb, that would make the book concept a worthwhile artistic endeavor, in my view. Alas, the transformation is so subtle as to be unnoticed, leaving the connoisseur with three cubes of colored paper. I think this fails in that it is a normal human expectation for the contents of a book to be more insightful and entertaining than its cover, hence the cliché.

  • This is beautiful!

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