Editorial Design
Spin. Restless SilenceAs a beginning point, who is familiar to most, stands a concept. What each person understand, or connects with it, can be very different. Most similar associations don't lead necessarily to a concrete statement about the conditions for the sweet life – La Dolce Vita.
Leading from expressive-colour-experience to a surreal imagination, arriving at a factual coolness. A book that questions the sweet life of the Italians, through photographies. Outside the tourist season – from Cremona to Genova, crossing Tuscany to Florence, and from Rome to Rimini. In-between colourful coastal towns, trist countrysides and rushing cities; the restless silence moves into the foreground
A day in Italy, a visual portrayal, observing areas of conflict, regarding the stress of life, the never changing as well as the perfect imagination. Central elements like light, colour and repetitions, play the major role. In such way the south influences also the following photographies, with its fully saturated palette of colour. With rich nuances, brings light and colour, forms and structures to life, which influences each other. The focus is always the composition. The ways of expression, are influenced and manifested by the experiences of interviews, which questioned the Italian points of view, concerning their sweet life.
Life happens on the edges! At the edge of the day, on the outskirts of the city and very rarely in the too beautiful centre. Through this crucial quote, the layout, grid and arrangement of the text, quote and photo layer has resulted. The cover, white glossy shows the myth. The matte, embedded photo breaks this, always in contrast to each other. The photograph shows even in itself again contrasts.
The book starts in the morning with a visual prologue, and ends in the evening with a visual epilogue. In the same structure, these show the silent and constant elements on restless, slightly transparent paper. The restless and fast impressions of everyday life, on the other hand, are printed on still 170gr paper. Photographic pages are broken by quotes, but are guided by them. Nevertheless, the quotations stand mostly independently from quotation giver or photography. Each photograph is only through statements. These are also broken again and again by the perfect illusions.