Edition 001
The Primer
The first published selection from GeekLibrary: one hundred and fifty-three ideas that make ordinary life legible.
153 cards · 3 volumes in print
An edition is a published selection of GeekLibrary cards. The Primer is the first — a set assembled around one question: what would make ordinary life legible to someone meeting it for the first time?
Every card is drawn at trim: 70 × 120 mm, 3.5 mm corners, one ink for the type and one full-colour icon for the subject. Each icon stands on a pedestal tinted to its section, so a shuffled deck sorts itself by colour before anybody reads a word. What you see on this site is the same artwork that goes to the press.
In print the edition is packaged as three volumes of fifty-two cards. That division is packaging, not knowledge. Online there are no volumes: there are cards, the topics that describe them, the collections that group them and the trails that order them.