SITUATION
Others has always been interviews first. Photographers talking plainly about light, about instinct, about the day nothing happens and the day everything does. After five print issues it returned as a book rather than a magazine, fourteen photographers gathered into a single volume published by Parallel Editions. A book asks more of its design than a magazine does, because people keep it. It sits on a shelf and gets pulled down again, and it has to still look right in five years.
DIAGNOSIS
What makes Others worth reading is that the photographers sound like themselves. Riverola saying the most creative she gets is when nobody gives her direction. That kind of honesty is easy to design over. Push the house style too hard and every voice starts to sound like the magazine instead of the person, and the thing that made the interviews worth printing quietly disappears into the layout.
DECISION
Build the book around the conversation rather than around the images. The interviews carry it, so the typography had to be the steady element, calm enough to read for an hour and confident enough to hold its own sitting between two photographs. The photography sets the pace and the type holds the line. The interview pages became the one place the book gets to speak in its own voice instead of the photographers', and that is where the original artwork lives.
WHAT WE BUILT
Editorial design and full layout for Volume I, cover to cover. Every piece of copy set and placed, the interviews, the contributor pages and the front matter. Original artwork made for the interview pages, drawn for this volume and nowhere else. Published by Parallel Editions, featuring Sebastien Zanella, Isabel Hayn, Pia Riverola, Romain Laprade, Susan Buth, Magdalena Wosinska, Ian Rebbel, Anastasia Lisenko, Katharine Kollman, Janet Delaney, Kevin Berruer, Drew Escriva, Michael Woolery and Tiffany Roubert.
Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.
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