Yoshinori Shimizu // Jack and Betty forever

Jack & Betty – in the fifties and sixties a whole generation of Japanese learned English by using this textbook. In his short story, Shimizu describes what has happened to Jack and Betty thirty years after they graduated from school.

Letterpress print using zinc plates in German and Japanese as well as in English and Japanese.
Linocut on Japanese exercise books with various lines and grids.
Translation into German by Katja Cassing.
Cover made from light-blue GA file.
CD in a booklet made from GA file with old recordings of singles from the textbook »Revised Jack and Betty.«
Box made from GA file, pasted with different covers from Japanese notebooks.
First edition of the German translation.
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48 pages. 16.5 x 19 cm
Edition of 50 copies using Arabic numerals in German and Japanese and 50 copies using Arabic numerals in English and Japanese
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Tokyo, 2005