Kraken Opus XL Super Bowl Limited Edition

The Official XL (40 YEARS OF THE SUPER BOWL) Limited Opus
Luxury and quality define every Opus. It is the incredible quality and impact of the Opus that has enabled Kraken to forge a unique official partnership with the National Football League to produce the amazing XL Super Bowl Opus.

Super Bowl is perhaps the most impressive and exciting spectacle in the entire world of sport. Such a sporting feast demands the very best, and the XL Super Bowl Opus will be the defining publication about the amazing 40 year history of "The game that stops America".

Nothing but the best: The XL Super Bowl Opus will contain over 400,000 words written by a selection of the finest sports writers in the USA, both past and present. The country's leading writers will be directed by an editorial team led by Michael MacCambridge and Rob Fleder, ensuring the quality and originality of the writing is unmatched.

A Unique insight: If the written word is exceptional, then the imagery of the XL Super Bowl Opus is "out of this world". With over 2000 photographs and illustrations, the Opus is truly a visual feast. For every image used, 1000 will be discarded. Ex-Sports Illustrated's Dot McMahon and her team will research over 2 million images to ensure that every one that appears really does merit it's place. Typically, 15% of all imagery we publish will have never been seen before. The commissioning of top quality sports, reportage and portrait photography will deliver this unique visual content, further underlining the epic nature of the XL Super Bowl Opus. This, combined with the use of illustrations and a uniquely developed system that, on a single page, visually records every single play on each final, ensures that the XL Super Bowl Opus will be a sensational celebration of this incredible sporting event.

Specifications
All Opuses are delivered in a hand made Clamshell Box which is 60cm x 60cm x 14cm deep, 8mm thick wood construction, hand made, and covered in silk. The Opus itself:

• 52cm x 52cm
• Leather bound by hand
• Limited edition of 20,000
• Over 900 pages
• Over 2,000 images
• Over 400,000 words
• Hand stitched
• Printed on 200gsm silk-coated paper
• Minimum of 6 colour processing, spot varnished images, gold and silver leaf
• Weighs over 35kg
• Signature page: each copy is personally signed by leading NFL stars
• Unique commissioned photography from many superb photographs, including the legendary Walter Iooss
• Delivering hundreds of never before images celebrating the passion and emotion that is Super Bowl
• Employing the latest technology to ensure that the quality of images surpasses anything seen before
• Unique drawings and images from Tiffany's illustrating the design and production of the iconic Lombardi trophy