MARIANA MATOS

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Communication Designer based in Detroit. Books are open for new projects & clients. Shoot her an email :)

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PublicATION

Orchid
Boom Book
Condon Report
Shinola Mooncraft Monster
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helloGirl

Motion

Bees & Time
Ch-Ching!
Morality 101 (Coming Soon)
The Girlfriends (Coming Soon)
—Film Photography

INTERACTION

Space Place Landscape
What We Wore (The Henry Ford Museum)
Design for Disassembly

PUBLICATION

Orchid

in collaboration with

Lucy van Eerde

What I learned

Organization & project management

Orchid is a hand-bound, partially riso-printed, completely self-authored brick of a book discussing my experiences as an immigrant, and how moving around the world has affected me and made me into who I am today.

This project required hours of sifting through family albums and document archives, calling parents to provide context or clear up messy timelines, and a considerable amount of introspection. This all came together in the form of a 287-page publication featuring countless digitized photographs and over 10,000 words of original writing.

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This self-driven project was sparked by a love for publication design and a long conversation with friends about the idiosyncrasies of being foreign. Together with Lucy van Eerde, a fellow immigrant, we set out to create a set of two publications, crafting one book each which would recount our experiences — and allow us to notice their similarities and differences.

The books share a set of themes, a grid, various typefaces, paper stock and, printing and binding method. But beyond that, they are uniquely our own. While each book was designed independently, Lucy and I worked together to keep each other on track, provide feedback, and assist during printing.

All pages containing images were printed using a risograph by yours truly, using teal, fluorescent pink, sunflower, and black. The French-fold pages were bound using a cold glue leaflet binding method; the final publication is wrapped in a translucent book jacket. Orchid also contains translucent pages and riso-printed cardstock inserts.

For more details on Lotus, the sister publication, please visit Lucy’s website.