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Shifting Lines, Silent Peaks: Rethinking borders under the shadow of Himalaya The project explores the tension between fixed political borders and shifting natural boundaries in the Himalayan region. Focusing on the borderland between China and India, it reflects on how mountains, rivers, and glaciers are often treated as stable markers of territory, even though climate change continues to reshape them. Rooted in long-standing territorial disputes, the project considers how these conflicts persist even as the boundaries they rely on become increasingly unstable and uncertain. What appears fixed on a map begins to feel far more fluid and unpredictable in reality. With thanks to everyone who helped. Documentation @gengbing.photo

finally getting around to sharing some details from Shifting Lines, Silent Peaks🏔️a book i made a while ago.

we’re grateful for the @tokyotdc for selecting our work for @mafineartcsm as excellent work in the book design category. Huge thanks to everyone involved in this project.

🦢🥚🦢🖐🏻 some moments

Me, on the train from Marseille heading to Madrid, with my stupid laptop. 2023.12 📷by @jessie_wooo_ 美丽的瞬间

(1/3) INTERVAL - Visual Identity and Catalogue for @mafineartcsm Degree Show 2025 @csm_news The Interval operates as a space between, a threshold that negotiates light and shadow—not only as visual contrasts, but as conceptual tools. Drawing from the rawness and immediacy of sketching, the project deconstructs the traditional language of light and shadow to reconstruct a new system of visual expression grounded in perspective, fragmentation, and spatial ambiguity. Rather than treating light as illumination and shadow as absence, this identity system frames them as co-constructive forces. Light reveals, shadow defines. The shifting boundary between the two becomes the visual and conceptual foundation of the work. Typography, image, and layout mirror this dialogue—sometimes dissolving into gradient fields, sometimes sharply delineated by spatial axes. The publication is not merely a record of the exhibition—it is the exhibition. Conceived as a spatial object, the catalogue can be disassembled and displayed as autonomous fragments across the gallery, each page operating as both artifact and surface. Assembled back into book form, it reconstitutes the spatial experience into a temporal one—turning the act of reading into a form of navigation. In this way, publication and exhibition fold into one another, blurring the distinction between documentation and experience, between fixed narrative and open-ended assembly. The identity does not seek to represent the exhibition; it becomes part of its unfolding logic. Design @servicepointjng @blurbl_e @bradz_gg1569 Print run 350 copies Typeface ROM&Monument Grotesk Mono by @abcdinamo Thank you team for the good work to make this happen @jamie_pazmino @javierarean @moraesa @kpreetphoenix @farwatahir_art . . . . . #visualbleed @visualbleed @papersarchive #papersarchive #posterindex @poster.index #graphicindex #digitalarchive #designeverywhere #helveticaposter #type01 #artdirection #typography #graphicdesign #editorialdesign #designeverywhere #publication #designgráfico #artistbook #grafikradar #contemporarytype #editorialgrid

Been working on this catalogue and show identity for @mafineartcsm . Today is the last day, from 12-6pm at Central Saint Martins @csm_news . Come over to checkout the amazing art work by the artists and grab some sheets make yourself a publication.

Our latest design and publication project for the lovely @sarahtaylorartist The Cookbook Of Me This concertina cookbook is an assemblage of handmade artefacts that weave together food, art and identity. Rooted in my art practice, it explores the themes of motherhood and the invisibility that often accompanies ageing as a woman. The concertina represents the ingredients for the recipes, while the recipes hide in the hidden booklet in the flap. Published by @servicepointjng ISBN 979-8-89778-730-2 First edition 100 copies Printing @dayfoldgroup 48 pages concertina, 12 pages booklet, 90*140 mm DM if you want one. In bookshops soon. . . . #visualbleed @visualbleed @papersarchive #papersarchive #posterindex @poster.index #graphicindex #digitalarchive #designeverywhere #helveticaposter #type01 #artdirection #typography #graphicdesign #editorialdesign #designeverywhere #publication #designgráfico #artistbook #grafikradar #contemporarytype

Editorial design and art direction for an academic research project of the artist Karema Munassar. This publication is an archival collection of dialogues and poems about the moon collected by the artist from participants in more than thirty locations around the world, as well as the artist‘s own interactions with the moon. The project has evolved into a non-profit publication that will include additional letters and will be exhibited in a major group show in March 2025. Title: Dear Moon Artist: Karema Munassar @ka_re_ma_ 128 Pages ISBN 978-0-618-26030-0 #visualbleed @visualbleed @papersarchive #papersarchive #posterindex @poster.index #graphicindex #digitalarchive #designeverywhere #helveticaposter #type01 #artdirection #typography #graphicdesign #editorialdesign