You might have held on to your Coldplay concert stub, the drink ticket for that bar you always say you'll go back to, or the billet de Métro you found at the bottom of your carry-on once you returned home.
But if you're German designer Tanja Backe, that's just the beginning: Backe culled more than two decades' worth of tickets (1600, give or take a few) from all over the world -- from trains, planes, subways, ferries, cloakrooms, exhibits, museums, circuses, plays, zoos, you name it -- then clustered them by hue and typeface and published them at actual size ("one to one") in the gorgeous volume One to One: The Visual Culture of International Tickets from Barcelona-based art publisher Actar, out May 1. You can pre-order it here.
written on Thursday Apr 12, 2007
tickets,
souvenirs,
book.
