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Festina Lente Libros
Production Method
Offset
Design
Festina Lente Libros
Story by Juliana Toro Suarez and Natalia Peez Penagos
Illustrations by Natalia Perez Penagos
Caligraphy by Juliana Toro Suaez
Printing
Torreblanca A.G.
When you hear the word book, my guess is that your first visual cue is that of a cover, pages bound together, and a back cover. But why should we define a book in such a way? There are many other formats that should be explored more often when narrating a story, many of them much more fitting that flipping pages that are interrupted after each spread.
Client
Self
Quantity Produced
300 of each
600 total
Production Cost
$25/each
Production Time
6 months
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
–
Page Count
126
Paper Stock
–
Number of Colors
2
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
Bodoni STD
Adobe Caslon Pro
Hand-lettered
Project Description
Festina Lente Libros is an up-and-coming independent publisher in Bogota, Colombia, born from the idea that books are an object of value, and in an attempt to answer the question about the future of books. We designed two books that defended and demonstrated the need of books, exploiting its material and physical potential. 8 soles de viaje is the diary of an anonymous traveler who goes to another galaxy trying to escape from his own reality, revealing human situations through the metaphor of a journey. While El inventario de palabras, is the explorer's legacy in the shape of an A-Z bestiary of creatures he has found in his life, simulating stereotypes of the everyday people. The first book is constructed from a single strip of paper that unfolds much like any journey, while the second contains twenty six postcards meant for the reader to send away. Our books are meant to form emotional bonds through narrative, empathy, and the aesthetic love for an object.Production Lesson(s)
While making these books we learned that hard work is irreplaceable.
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