« Allee der Kosmonauten »

« Allee der Kosmonauten »

This publication created a feeling (We Designers do not think, we feel!) of homesickness because I know the street «Allee der Kosmonauten» from the picture. It is a very problematic area — for me, it created an emotional relationship with the photographs found in the trash. Photographs and pictures are very private and very personal — these are things that don’t belong in the trash. So I asked myself: «What happened that they threw the pictures away?».

All these faces tell a story in a way and in combination with the illustrations it creates a fantasy world. It almost seems not real. The Typography is used very thrifty and very careful. The left-justified text is not too intrusive and it creates a symbiosis with the pictures and/or illustrations. In between are blank pages. The font used is transitional. I can’t really tell which font but it looks like a Baskerville. The book is in portrait format and some pages are folded with a height of about 20 cm.

This example will influence my work because of the text-picture/illustration relation. I like the use of white space and the minimalistic use of text. Pictures are in general very personal. In the white space, they have enough room to tell their stories.

Publication: «Melek» by Julie Doucet & Benoit Chaput