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Book Design.

This designed book of rare black & white photographs taken during their 1966 tour, for client Tracks Ltd, features the story, starting from the early days in Hamburg 1962, with text from their former press officer Tony Barrow, there was also a matt laminated box set version consisting of a original piece of stage from The Star Club with a signed certificate of authenticity, and limited to 1,000 copies, all wrapped in simulator paper and sealed by a Beatles in Germany sticker. I designed the cover with neat boxed multi layered shots of them performing, butting up and overlapping each other to give the feel of a modern pin board or holiday snap shots, as its a book about them being on tour abroad, good old helvetica font was used for the most part, including all the body copy, but I choose the not so pretty Slalam script font also, as a lot of posters and signage etc. in Germany at that time had that look and feel to them, the layouts I put together are minimal and sparse with small placed blocks of copy leaving plenty of white space for the attention of the shots.