![]() Here, a matte, black version makes up the dust jacket. That’s because it consists of an ultra-thin aluminum sheet sandwiched between a high temperature-rated coating.Īs the name suggests, Cinefoil is typically used in the movie industry to mask lights and eliminate unwanted reflections. ![]() When Laxdal picks up a sheet of it to show me over FaceTime, I can hear it crumple like kitchen foil. The book’s star material is something called Cinefoil. “We’ve never done anything fireproof before.” ![]() “We make a lot of unusual projects,” says Gas Company owner Doug Laxdal. ![]() The burn-proof edition was designed by creative ad agency Rethink and made by the Gas Company, a Toronto-based firm that has made books with pages that change color under UV light and covers made out of thin concrete slabs. As stunts go, it’s a pretty incendiary one. “The Unburnable Book” was sewn and bound by hand and made from a variety of fireproof materials that were put to the test with a torch, even left in a burning BBQ for half an hour. To raise awareness of the growing number of book burnings and bans in this country, Penguin Random House has partnered with legendary author Margaret Atwood to create a single, fireproof edition of her dystopian novel (and often banned) The Handmaid’s Tale. ![]() school districts, most of them focused on people of color and LGBTQ individuals. Since August 2021, over 1,500 books have been banned from U.S. ![]()
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