Wim Meter lives in Holland and collects novelty radios. He's a graphic designer so it seemed the obvious idea to design a book featuring his collection. From my experience, publishers of books for collectors turn out uniformly dull-looking titles with bland layouts, photos and typography, so it was refreshing to see how the author presented his collection.
The book is all in color and most spreads are devoted to a particular type of radio, pages twenty-four and five has twenty fast food products, seventy-eight and nine shows radios with a Dick Tracy theme, ninety-six and seven has slot machine and juke box radios but what makes this book so fascinating and in my view lifts it out of the ordinary is that all the radios are photographed as a still-life group or they are superimposed on a spread wide image that relates to the items shown, detailed captions and intriguing bits of information are scattered amongst the images.
Visually, this really is a stunning book and if you collect or are interested in novelty radios (and there must be some hundreds included) it is the one to get. Design, photography, printing and especially editorial content can't be beat.
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