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A football book, always good for morale!
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Not for sale I am afraid, but I will ask Rick if we could do a competition to give one away?
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I have shown a picture of Zanetti for all our Argentinean friends, for some reason we have a lot of followers in Argentina? Thanks for the great footballers, keep them coming! more players like Tevez to West Ham Utd Please :)
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Here is the official Press Release!
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Eleven is a collection of images of footballers (originally commissioned for a campaign by Medhi Benmamar and Alvin Chan at Nike) shot by Rick Guest. Designed by Yacht Associates, printed by Generation Press and published through by Generation Yacht, Eleven sports an embossed soft white leather hardback cover. "The concept for this book was to create 'prints' that were bound into a book, rather than images to be 'designed' around, hence it became very much an exercise in removing superfluous content and almost designing out the design to leave something that communicated through it's tactility and functionality," explains Yacht Associates' Richard Bull.
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"Each page has a serrated tear line down the inner edge, which serves to aid removal but more importantly acts as 'nod' to the owner that permission is granted to remove pages if desired," adds Bull. "There are eleven 'Hero' shots and eleven 'Action Shots', the later images are fold out landscapes and the look follows a format where a fold-out appears after every 'Hero' shot. The technical challenges we faced required an enormous amount of research and development with Generation Press - which culminated in the book taking almost a year from conception to finished item. Published by Generation Yacht this book exists in a very limited edition of 100 copies and is not for sale."
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"The book was initially a reaction to the ephemeral nature of commercial work, to give substance to not just the work, but to the experience of shooting it," says Guest of the project. "A reminder of the journey, travelling madly around Europe, every day a different country, a different player, working with a fantastically tight crew, shooting frenetically within the tiny windows in the players schedules. Later however, it became more of a thankyou to all those involved; of course they get paid and get to tell their mates they were involved, but it's not the same as holding something you were part of in your hands, something to be proud of. All the people involved gave more than they were asked, it made sense to say thanks in a way that did justice to that."
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Rick Guest
Design: Yacht Associates
Photography: Snaps of books ;) Jason Tozer
Art Direction: Richard Bull at Yacht Associates
Published by: Generation Yacht