Rare Books and Ancestral Machines: 
A Handbook to the Posner Center for Special Collections 
Publication ⋆ Posner Center for Special Collections, Carnegie Mellon University ⋆ Published by Tartan Press, Pittsburgh, PA ⋆ 2025


        published by Tartan Press        
        5.25 x 7.125”
        600 pages          
        offset print, full color
        printed by Balto 

Designed under Addition Projects, in collaboration with Kelsey Elder


A 600-page handbook for the Carnegie Mellon University Press. The design system stages a conversation between two typographic voices to reflect the Posner Collection and the book’s central premise: the intertwined histories of human–computer interaction. Specially treated full-bleed details of collection objects punctuate the chapters, creating illumination between sections and enabling unexpected visual juxtapositions between the items.