It came in a beautiful de-embossed\u00a0die-cut sleeve, it’s cloth bound and foil stamped and it’s filled with some really cool images and stories about the design produced for the campaign.<\/p>\n
The book was published with money collected in a novel way. The book was\u00a0purposed\u00a0on this cool website called Kickstarter. Kickstarter is an escrow between hundreds of small doners and some project that needs support. So my pre-order directly funded the publishing of the book, which feels pretty cool. From the website:<\/p>\n
We believed the Obama-like fundraising model is the perfect way to ensure the book’s integrity and quality. People supported this project; funded its creation, and changed way we think about traditional publishing. We were happy to see the community support our approach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Several months ago I pre-ordered this cool book called