Playing the Library
January 2025
Playing the Library was a print publication brief for 2nd year of university, combining black and white digital and dual colour risograph printing techniques. The aim was to use only imagery from 5 books of any theme. The limitations meant that there was a lot to consider.
In my case, I was inspired by Carl Jung's Red Book, and decided to take a personal approach. I found 5 books with authors who also shared my name (Enrico ____), went through each book once, taking any images I subconsciously resonated with to form my image bank.
I then worked start to finish, allowing instinct to guide me in composing the "story", only iterating for refining how things looked, not making any more changes to the core idea of the pages. This resulted in the following sequence of imagery, where there is a lot to look at.
I then attempted to understand what I had made using Jungian psychoanalysis, with a breakdown below:
The full list of books:
Cells to Civilizations - Enrico Coen
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Works on Paper - edited by Enrico Navarra
Fiona Tan: Geography of Time - edited by Enrico Lunghi
Fontana - edited by Enrico Crispolti
George Grosz: Berlin-New York - text by Enrico Crispolti