Jason Permenter

TRUNK. Brought to you by award-winning designer Suzanne Boccalatte (visuals editor) and author and scholar Meredith Jones (writing editor). Published by Boccalatte Pty Ltd, Sydney. And just plain lovely. Have a look at their gallery.

From the Trunk site:

Trunk books will be a series of small, corporeal, personal, and sensual books. They are intended to be beautiful, coveted objects filled with fascinating content, much like an old trunk in an attic. These collectable volumes will be consumable and engrossing as a whole, yet filled with short pieces so that each book can also be flipped through or dipped into at random. Each will explore a part of the human body through writing, art, and photography. There will be interviews, essays, fiction, photo essays, poems, and art works addressing multifarious dimensions of the theme. The series is aimed at an intelligent, engaged audience interested in both “high” and popular culture and is intended to have wide appeal.

TRUNK VOLUME ONE: HAIR

I’m sold. I want one. Because I’m a sucker for brown, floppy books and belly bands.

ALSO: Think you’ve got what it takes to be part of a bad-ass, covetable, intelligent publication? Submissions for TRUNK Volume Two: BLOOD are due 30 October 2009. So get the lead out, freelance journalists. Or even those who’d like to be one.

(Found by the wonderful creatives over at Design Milk.)