Drone Poem

Book Design

Year

'24

Collaborator

Letra Muerta Inc

Drone Poem was written by the poet Lynne Shapiro during her “Bee Time” artist residency at Emerson College, England, in 2017. In collaboration with Letra Muerta Inc was made into a visual poem in the form of a publication in 2024.

Drone Poem was written by the poet Lynne Shapiro during her “Bee Time” artist residency at Emerson College, England, in 2017. In collaboration with Letra Muerta Inc was made into a visual poem in the form of a publication in 2024.

Concept

This limited-edition foldout is hand-bound and designed to offer the poem as both a visual and sensory experience, achieved through the layered transparencies of vellum paper. Two cover variations were produced, each laser-cut to create an organic quality through its characteristic burned edges. The foldout is housed in a dry-stamped envelope made with French paper and presented in a silk-screened, limited-edition box.

Credits

Photography: Daniela Spector.
Typeface: Chaparral Pro by Carol Twombly.
Printing, dye-cut, and binding: Letra Muerta Inc, with the help of Liz Morles. 
Laser cut for covers: Nicole Aptekar.
Silkscreen by The Circadian Press

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