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Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation is a large format hardcover book featuring many of ILM’s breakthrough movies, such as the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Transformers, Iron Man, and the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, offering a crash course on the most groundbreaking visual effects created today.
Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation is an extensively illustrated history of the multiple-Academy-Award®-winning visual effects company founded by George Lucas in 1975. This book features a behind-the-scenes record of the state-of-the-art innovations that have driven moviemaking magic; from the filmmakers, artists, and technicians who were there, breaking barriers and changing the history of cinema.
The book cover design organizes ILM’s breath of work by color, creating a rainbow spectrum of color of ILM’s most iconic VFX shots.
We pitched the idea of spot varnishing the individual images on the cover to create more emphasis on the film shots. Abrams, the publisher, loved the idea and implemented this special print technique in the final production run.