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As Ilhas Desconhecidas
img_home/photos/ilhas.jpgIt is indeed a unique book, which results from the photographic survey conducted by Jorge Barros, between 1988 and 2011 throughout the archipelago. In this book his lens captures in a singular form the natural landscape and human experience of the Azores islands, providing also a rereading of the work itself that serves as a (pre)text.
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Aparições
img_home/photos/Gerard.jpg'Aparições' is a posthumous tribute to Gérard Castello-Lopes. The author shows 153 photographs taken over 50 years (1956-2006). This is an hardcover book printed at GUIDE in CMYK on Novatech Ultimatt 150g paper. There is also a tryptic betweenpages 192 and 193. Most images are black and white. All prepress work was made at GUIDE. The book format is 240 x 288mm and it has 336 pages.
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Haja Luz!
img_home/photos/HajaLuz.jpgJorge Calado shows us how the paths from fire and light, until the radioactivity and the DNA, scientists and designers dedicated their lives to knowledge. This 250 x 230mm book is all about the history of chemistry. 632 pages printed in Artic Volume White 115g, at GUIDE. Almost all works where photographed or scaned at GUIDE. The most important findings of human knowledge where in our hands just to make this fantastic harcover book about science.
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O Mundo de SJ Perelman
img_home/photos/Perelman.jpgPerelman's prose is restrained, doesn't exclaim, no consciousness of their own grace. Basically, Perelman's prose does not laugh. And that is why it makes you laugh more.GUIDE printed this 352 pages book on PopSet Ivory 125g. It has the particularityof having its textblock exposed, but, at the same time, printed.
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Lisboa — cidade triste e alegre
img_home/photos/lisboa.jpg190 pure artistic pages printed at GUIDE. Recognizing one of the best photographic fac simile books ever made in Portugal. Tritone reproduction using sublima screening on six different kind of papers.
«The ink can even be special and paper one of the best ways to support the photography, but if not, the experience and initiative of the GUIDE maybe this reprint this did not exist.
Corte and Prince hit several doors and they where all closed. Some print shops didn't even risked budgets to execute a book as lengthy and complex as this one.
This book was not designed for an industrial process. That is why it will be finished by hand with current techniques… »
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António Barreto — fotografias
img_home/photos/barreto.jpg"Fotografias" in english photos, is a hardcover duotone book about photography by António Barreto.
256 pages of a lifetime work on a 236x300mm hardcover book printed on Novatech Ultimatt 150g. Sewn text blocks, round spine and headband. Dust jacket printed on couche mate 170g. -
Mensagem
img_home/photos/mensagem.jpgThis hardcover book has 148 pages of Printspeed Crème 100g paper and was printed using CMYK colors.
GUIDE was happy to celebrate the 75th. Anniversary of the" Message. Guimarães editora launches [...] a facsimile of "Mensagem" by Fernando Pessoa, typewritten and delivered in the workshops of Império Editorial, where the book was printed. [...] The aim was creating an object that was virtually indistinguishable from the original now preserved in the National Library.
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Le Corbusier — Modulator 1 e 2
img_home/photos/corbusier.jpgLe Corbusier is one of the few architects, not only in the 20th century, but in the whole history of Architecture, to propose a theory of proportions and to make descriptions on how they were applied to his projects. His work shows, besides the attentive look to the creation of an architecture consonant with social changes brought by the 20th century's emerging technologies, a logical, rational, and disciplinary thinking that finds its full
expression, in terms of proportions, in his system named "Modulor".
This work consists in two volumes of 304 pages and 400 respectivly, sized 145x145mm, printed in Stochastic screening putted together in a box.