Ants, Passiflora and Me (Billingual)

Book Design

Year

'23

Collaborator

Letra Muerta Inc

Ants, Passiflora, and Me by Lynne Shapiro, translated by Paola Senseve, is a meditation in the form of prose that explores the limits of gardens and relationship-building within our communities.

Ants, Passiflora, and Me by Lynne Shapiro, translated by Paola Senseve, is a meditation in the form of prose that explores the limits of gardens and relationship-building within our communities.

General Aspects

This is a dos-à-dos book with flexible covers and Asahi cloth spines. Divided into two for each language. The chromatic palette comes from the colors of the passiflora flower in full bloom. Elements across the envelopes represent ants and other natural elements referenced by the author. The details of the cover might seem antagonistic, between the looseness of the stroke in the graphic and the indentation of the machine-produced hot-stamping. The lettering and drawings were recreated in-house from the author’s family archives. New titles and graphic elements were taken from fragments of letters and strokes, creating a sense of nostalgia in the context of the other fonts used: Sedgwick by Leinster Type for display and Milligram by Zetafonts for body text.

Quoting the author: “Only during migration is my garden fully appreciated for its seed heads, places to shelter, and the varieties of insects found under leaf and bark (...) Little do the neighbors know I harbor ants.”

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