Fresh Cuts

A Comprensive Manual on
Cutting Paper with Penknife

Client

● Independent

Discipline

Writing, Editorial,
Illustration, Publishing

Assembly

Book + Handcut Dust Jacket
122pp — 110MM x 70MM

Date

2022

Client

Disciplines

Assembly

Date

● Independent

Writing, Editorial,
Illustration, Publishing

Book + Handcut Dust Jacket
122pp — 110MM x 70MM

2022

The book goes into great detail about various ways to leverage biomechanics and tools in order to create the 'Freshest' Cut possible. It outlines several techniques and tricks that can be useful for the designer who wants to perfect their mockup-making craft.

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The book is organised into 10 chapters: The Field, The Mind, The Body, The Guide, The Eye, The Anchor, The Handle, The Blade, The Cut, and The Way.

Each chapter goes into meticulous detail on all the attitudes, techniques, and biomechanics that relate to a specific component that comes with Cutting.

Straightforward and dead-pan, the content is also accompanied with various diagrams, crafted with the same sensibilities as those found in Japanese instruction manuals

As a testament to the principles written in the book, every copy of Fresh Cuts comes in a Hand-Cut Dust Jacket

With the edges of the text precisely kissing the edge of the paper and the fold of the crease, this book cover is impossible to recreate through mass-production. It needs the precise tolerances of the human hand.

2 slits are also made underneath the letters, turning a cut into a graphic element. Too high, and it cuts through the type. Too low and the type is floating. It needs to be just right, it needs to be a Fresh Cut.

At the moment, a Korean translation of Fresh Cuts is underway. If you are a publisher interested in publishing Fresh Cuts in your own language, please feel free to reach out