The black book

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The black book, a catalog about Strange Air in The Night, an artistic meeting between France and South Korea.

→ The book has been designed like a traveller’s notebook
→ The flyleaf is a simple nigth sky printed on glossy Chromolux paper that contrasts with recycled papers of the cover and leaflet.
→ Symbols of the two countries (yin and Yang / Lorraine cross) and a mysterious pyramid are the only graphic elements, they are printed on pages
→ separating sections and on the cover.
→ A hole is drilled all across the book. It symbolizes cultural differences between the two countries as it erases some words and disturbs reading… It can be read as a moon in the nigth of the cover. This black hole is also a metaphorical representation of the fear and mysteries of getting in a foreign culture.
→ Pages numbers are written in both languages to afford possibility to learn numbers in french and korean
→ Margins are the place for secondary information as small interviews of the artists, artists names and make information quite easy to find.

Sewed binding
rounded corners
100 pages
Printed on recycled and Chromolux papers
cmjn + pantone 2755