Sharing some documentation of a recent book design for
@ekoweshun ’s #InTheBlackFantastic, available now through
@thamesandhudson in the UK and
@mitpress in the US. 🌎📓
At almost a year in the making, this book has been one of the more exciting and intimate design contexts I’ve worked in to date. A huge thanks to Ekow for trusting your vision with me.
Cheers to seeing cultural threads made and articulated, and cheers to dots being connected across time, space, & the Black diaspora. 📓🥂
Typeset in:
ABC Camera by
@abcdinamo (ty for early access 🙏🏾)
Tiempos Text,
@klim_type_foundry
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‘In the Black Fantastic assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora that embraces ideas of the mythic and the speculative. Neither Afrofuturism nor Magic Realism, but inhabiting its own universe, In the Black Fantastic brings to life a cultural movement that conjures otherworldly visions out of the everyday Black experience – and beyond – looking at how speculative fictions in Black art and culture are boldly reimagining perspectives on race, gender, identity and the body in the 21st century.
Transcending time, space and genre to span art, design, fashion, architecture, film, literature and popular culture, this vital, timely and compelling publication is an expressive exploration of Black popular culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious and politically urgent.’
If you need me I'm on pg 234-235, staring at these #RobertReed paintings❣️
