“Catapulted by the publication’s title, John Waters: Pope of Trash, the book’s design worked its way from the outside in. A crucifix runs up the book’s fore edge, its horizontal axis created by ticker marks printed on each page. These marks become anchor points for the folios, which, in turn, dictate the universal axis point for the layout’s grid. The cover is inspired by a scene in Serial Mom in which Kathleen Turner’s character holds up a trashy magazine in her defense—with a blatant label that runs across the cover reading ‘Bonus Pack—$5—Adults Only’—and, if you know the movie, then you know this comes back to bite her later. Throughout the book and cover is a bonus PMS color, which could be coined ‘flamingo pink.’” 256 pages, 8¾ × 12, casebound hardcover, printed endpapers, Smyth sewn.