By the end of Saturday’s LA Art Book Fair/Book Machine live design event, graphic design BFA and MFA students successfully tackled a heroic feat: design two books per day, with 3.5 hours per book, alongside an artist public participant. Designers and public participants were randomly matched, and many times the content was generated on the spot through a mix of unexpected ways, through lively conversation, eavesdropping on others’ conversations, diaries, internet searches, personal tumblr accounts, phone photography, selfies, file sharing, or all eight actions at once. After two full days of augmented visual, conversational, and aural stimulation, designers crowded in the CalArts Print Lab on the night of day 2 to bind 66 books in total. The bound books were made available to the participating artists in time for the final day of the LA Art Book Fair. Here are the book covers of the entire collection, with select interior spreads.

Special thanks to David Mayes at TypeCraft for printing all artists’ books, and to project co-ordinator and producer Eline Mul.