Yevgeniy Fiks, Communist Guide to New York City, common room, 2007

In Communist Guide to New York City, Russian artist Yevgeniy Fiks documents 100 sites in New York City related to the American Communist PartySites include places where illegal events or protests took place, in office spaces, storefronts or public space

The thumbnail index organizes 100 buildings four to a page, leaving any site that no longer exists blankThe index is split in half, bookending the small publicationImages of the 100 buildings are reorganized from shortest to tallest in height and printed large in the middle of the book

The essays and captions appear in English and RussianIn the essays, each language is typeset continuously—English in Helvetica Cyrllic Bold, Russian in Helvetica Cyrllic Regular—so that the two languages interweave on the recto and verso sides of each page as you flip through the bookLarge word spacing gives the quotations and folios a clear typographic hierarchyCaptions for images are typeset in Times Cyrllic Regular and Bold

The book is printed in an economical format that can be folded in 32 pages on a standard B1 printing sheet without waste, 12 cm × 16.5/4.7 × 6.5 inches in one color, mostly black, throughout by Kee Mei Printing in Hong KongA small, folded poster of a few of Yevgeniy's handwritten notes on maps that he had been using for the project is placed loosely in the center of the book