Composition No. 1 by Marc Saporta: To be read in any order.

Continuing to push the boundaries of book publishing and literary form, London based book publisher Visual Editions have published their third title. Composition No. 1, by Marc Saporta, is the first ever book-in-a-box, it first came out it in the 60s.

Tom Uglow of Google introduces it and Matt Pyke of Universal Everything designed it: celebrating and exploring different (non-linear) ways of reading and looking at how the book was so ahead of its time. To accompany this title, Visual Editions have made their very first iPad app (also designed by Universal Everything), which lets the user play with all the randomising, shuffling elements born out of the book.


Composition No. 1 is available to order now, and you can download the iPad app from iTunes.