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.
Commissioned by the photographer and author, the design required to support a clean display—in a honest and modest style—of these powerful images and let them speak for themselves. To achieve that, photographs are surrounded by enough negative space in the layout to allow observation and understanding. Being poetry part of the book, typography played an important role in type setting through intentional and uneven 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.
