PUBLICATIONOrchid
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.