Para | Fictions
Para | Fictions
Natasha Hoare (ed.)
The publication marks the conclusion of Para | Fictions, a two-year commissioning series in which ten artists responded to works of literary fiction. In the publication, invited writers and curators respond to each work, completing a circle between text and object to trace the lines of literary affiliation.
For the design, we embraced the genre of literature and decided for a classic B-format, typically associated with literary paperbacks. The layout with its elegantly wide margins of white space on each page applies the principles of the Golden Ratio. The book is completely set in Rosart that feels traditional and contemporary at the same time creating a playful twist. Para | Fictions is printed on a cream volume paper. Each text opens with an early drawing of the artist. Taking inspiration from tipped-in colour plates, the drawings are printed separately on a lighter coated paper stock and attached along the inner margin of the page. Echoing the paper-marbling technique often employed in the book arts for paste-downs and endpapers, the cover features a fluid and dynamic pattern.
Year: 2018
Client: Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
Reader, 13.5 × 19.7 cm, 120 pages
Photography: Marcel Lunkwitz
Para | Fictions
Para | Fictions
Natasha Hoare (ed.)
The publication marks the conclusion of Para | Fictions, a two-year commissioning series in which ten artists responded to works of literary fiction. In the publication, invited writers and curators respond to each work, completing a circle between text and object to trace the lines of literary affiliation.
For the design, we embraced the genre of literature and decided for a classic B-format, typically associated with literary paperbacks. The layout with its elegantly wide margins of white space on each page applies the principles of the Golden Ratio. The book is completely set in Rosart that feels traditional and contemporary at the same time creating a playful twist. Para | Fictions is printed on a cream volume paper. Each text opens with an early drawing of the artist. Taking inspiration from tipped-in colour plates, the drawings are printed separately on a lighter coated paper stock and attached along the inner margin of the page. Echoing the paper-marbling technique often employed in the book arts for paste-downs and endpapers, the cover features a fluid and dynamic pattern.
Year: 2018
Client: Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
Reader, 13.5 × 19.7 cm, 120 pages
Photography: Marcel Lunkwitz