Close to

the Bayou

DESIGN DIRECTION — CALEB CAIN MARCUS
PUBLISHER — WORKSHOP ARTS
ARTIST —DIMITRI STASZEWSKI

We created and developed a production technique for the cover typography with hanging threads that echoe the Spanish moss that's referred to throughout the book.

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The interior uses layering and transparency to speak to the books narrative of what it is to be and artist and confront death. 

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When the photographs end a second story begins, told in first person, set with type and on paper the color of moss.

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