Grain over gloss.
Photography is pushed into hard, grainy black and white, so skin, plastic and stone all read as the same uncertain material.
01 · The device
A sentence that won't stop.
On one spread, a single thought repeats until it fills the column. The words never change. Only the emphasis moves, from Maybe to my to back to am, so the reader hears the same sentence argue with itself. It's typeset live below, the same way.
02 · The spread
The face store.
"The face had no eyes, no expression, and was closed off. I didn't know how to open its lips."— The Man With No Face
03 · The calls
How it's built.
Faces in a circle.
The cover crops the figure into a circle, like a lens or a porthole. You're looking in at him, and he can't look back.
Swiss, then broken.
A clean grotesk, rules and caps on the cover, so the strange things inside, the wrapping, the repetition, land harder against the order.
Text that moves out of the way.
Columns bend around the giant face instead of sitting in a box beside it. The page makes room for the thing the character is afraid of.
04 · Studies
Figures in 3D.
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