My reviews this week were all a little heavy, so I figured I’d
lighten things up a bit for Friday. The Art of Clean Up by Ursus Wehrli
definitely fits the bill. Wehrli is a
typographer and comedian and if you think those occupations have nothing in
common, you should check out The Art of
Clean Up. In it, Wehrli takes random
situations and puts them in “order.” So,
a disorganized clothesline with different items hanging here and there gets
organized by size and color. Alphabet
soup gets alphabetized. Some of the real
humor comes from how he orders things that he can’t just keep in place –
chickens, for instance.
The book features large pages of bright, colorful
photography. The page on the left is a
picture of real life as it happens and the page on the right is a picture of
the same scene after Wehrli has spent countless hours making everything just
so. The photography is very well done,
ranging from close-ups of food to aerial shots of a parking lot. It’s rare to find a wordless book that can
still make you laugh out loud but The Art
of Clean Up does it. Just in showing
it to some coworkers, several mentioned almost immediately how much certain “meticulous”
family members would enjoy it. A
coworker also pointed out how in the picture below, the child does not look
very pleased with the “orderly” sandbox.
For another book making order out of the everyday, try Things Come Apart: A Teardown Manual for Modern Living reviewed here.
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