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Haarlem-based poetry laboratory De Zingende Zaag (The Singing Saw) came up with some colourful bunting to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary. Literally: as this 12-metre long combination of flatbook and leporello (the longest in the world according to the makers) can be hung up just as it is. An ingenious system of pages glued nose-to-tail results in a perfectly hinged string of zigzag bunting that folds neatly into a book block presenting the 42 colourful publications puzzled together by the poetry laboratory over the past thirty years. With highlighted poems, reviews and texts written for the occasion in bold retro colours reminiscent of the cover art of ’80s Dutch pop sensations Doe Maar and festive, chaotic design based around the motif of the saw tooth. Book design as clowning. Impossible to improve.

Edition: 2019
Date of publication: November 2019
Author: George Moormann
Language: Dutch
Image editor: George Moormann
Photographer: Ton van der Heide
Artist: George Moormann
Publisher: De Zingende Zaag Producties, Haarlem
Available through: Webshop, bookshop, poëzielaboratorium de zingende zaag p/a bakenessergracht 89-d, 2011 jv haarlem
Graphic designer: Studio Hendriksen (Amsterdam)
Lithographer: Zwaan Lenoir, Wormerveer
Printer: Zwaan Lenoir, Wormerveer
Binder: J. Voetelink & Zoon, Haarlem
DTP: Maison Neue (Milieu Grotesque), Amsterdam
Size book block (w x h x d in mm): 170 x 225 x 40 (leporello: 12.24 meter)
Number of pages: 144
Print run: 333
Price: € 125
ISBN: 979 90 74183 31 4
Binding style: Combination of flatbook and leporello
Paper for interior (grammage): 250gsm Edixion Offset, Antalis
Special features: The longest literary leporello in the world. J. Voetelink & Zoon is the only company in Europe with a machine that can make such a book.