Materia Prima
BOOK DESIGN
Materia Prima is a compilation book from international photographer and National Geographic Fellow, Erika Larsen. Her book tells the story of rituals in indigenous communities around the world.
I was commissioned by Erika to design her book in a honest and modest style that would allow her powerful images speak for themselves. To achieve that in the design, photographs are surrounded by enough negative space to allow observation and understanding, and the typography in poems is set with intentional spacing.
“Materia Prima explores ritual, time, and the process of remembering we are nature,” Erika Larsen.
Artists in the project: Symbols designed by Frida Larios, artist focused on indigenous graphic language. Map illustration by Anishinaabe Onyota’aka, artist from Beausoleil First Nation and Oneida Nation of the Thames.
