A Poetic Triptych
Volume Three for Viston Taylor
In 2010 our designer Grant Dotson created the look and feel for Viston Taylor’s first volume of poetry. A beautifully minimal book design built to showcase the poetry and to serve as a limited edition for friends and family. In 2017 designer Virginia Brooks built on the structure Grant designed for Volume Two, and finally in 2021 designer Emily Ricks completed Volume Three.
Creating Volume Three proved more difficult with supply chain issues and high demand on binderies. The unavailability of the same text paper used in Volumes One and Two meant that the printer, Adams Litho, had to get innovative — printing on plain paper to create the flecked stock effect of the older versions. Quality was paramount for the world class printers, and so production issues had to be overcome. The result is a beautiful set of three poetry books.
Viston Taylor, born February 5, 1946, was raised in a small town in Tennessee and, after serving in the U.S.Army in Vietnam, completed his 50-year career in gerontology and healthcare in Chattanooga, Tennessee.Now retired, he spends his days writing, reading, playing piano, and attempting to learn social media so that he can communicate with ten grandchildren. He is married 42 years to Roses, and they live on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, where they happily play backgammon, cribbage, Scrabble, and gin rummy among three dogs, a cat, and a blue and gold macaw.
Creative Direction: Paul Rustand; Design: Emily Ricks and Grant Dotson; Printing and binding: Adams Litho.