A life’s worth of study

John Flynn is a boomerang World Champion who carefully documented his four decades in the sport, resulting in a one-of-a-kind historical record that he wished to highlight with striking images of his unparalleled boomerang collection. His aim was to achieve a museum-quality gift book that was not only a means of preserving the legacy of his favored sport but was also a visual triumph.

50 Important Boomerangs book

A design up to the task

With numerous elements at play, including historical photographs and artifacts, descriptive text, author notes, captions, sidebars, and subsections, the goal was clean, crisp, with room for the images to shine. The result is a coffee table book that everyone wants to pick up, and the factual archive that tells a subculture’s story.

sample pages from 50 Important Boomerangs book