In this book we saw a designer taking a supportive role, embracing the materiality of Lemaire’s work. Jeremy Jansen chose to set the text widely, over a recycled pink paper, translating the certain flatness of Lemaire’s drawings into his design choices. Themes and subjects as nostalgic longing for a lost life and a lost world, exploring the contradiction between myth and reality, as well as mystery, are embraced in format, material choice and layout. Our curiosity was sparked to find out what was lingering under the surface, and leaving us to tear open the sharp edges of pink paper.
In this book we saw a designer taking a supportive role, embracing the materiality of Lemaire’s work. Jeremy Jansen chose to set the text widely, over a recycled pink paper, translating the certain flatness of Lemaire’s drawings into his design choices. Themes and subjects as nostalgic longing for a lost life and a lost world, exploring the contradiction between myth and reality, as well as mystery, are embraced in format, material choice and layout. Our curiosity was sparked to find out what was lingering under the surface, and leaving us to tear open the sharp edges of pink paper.