Book Experiments —
Book Design
CREDITS —
Studio: And Repeat
Client: Martin Grasser
Animation: Janice Chang
Designe: Vina Rostomyan
Images © Martin Grasser
This project began as a gift—a box of spray-painted papers from artist Martin Grasser, accompanied by the most open-ended of invitations: do something with them and send them back.
I lived with the papers for months. They moved through my space—pinned to walls, framed, folded, rearranged—until I stopped trying to solve them and started listening to what they wanted to become. They had no hierarchy, no correct orientation. Front became back, top became bottom. They existed in possibility.
I lived with the papers for months. They moved through my space—pinned to walls, framed, folded, rearranged—until I stopped trying to solve them and started listening to what they wanted to become. They had no hierarchy, no correct orientation. Front became back, top became bottom. They existed in possibility.
Books emerged not as solution but as conversation. The format offers structure without insisting on linearity—pages that turn, yes, but narratives that refuse fixed beginnings or endings. These are stories told in color: gradients that shift like light moving across a room, textures that ask to be felt, rhythms that pulse through sequences of hue and saturation.
Each person who opens these books writes their own story, finding their own path through fields of color. What I designed was less a book than an invitation to slow down and pay attention to what color can say when given space to speak.
Each person who opens these books writes their own story, finding their own path through fields of color. What I designed was less a book than an invitation to slow down and pay attention to what color can say when given space to speak.
