Creative Mimicry Across Book Projects (and small books)

"Steal don't borrow" as advice is about using the inspiration of someone else's creativity as part of the spark of something original using your own creativity.

One area in which this can be especially potent is book design, including the format of a project, which can either affect the text or reflect existing text's properties.

In my case, contributing to Canongate's marvelous The Libraries of Thought & Imagination (2001) woke up my interest in small books. The production values, including f...