On Painting and the Nature of Work
The Necessarian

CREATIVE DIRECTION — CALEB CAIN MARCUS
PUBLISHER — THE NECESSARIAN
ARTIST —AMY ELLINGSON
WRITERS — TERRY CASTLE, BETT WILLIAMS
BOOK PHOTOS — STEVEN PANECCASIO

Awarded
Society of Typographic Arts, Winner

On Painting and the Nature of Work recounts and examines the events of a year-long flow state, shaped by the intense pressure of preparing a major exhibition, during which Amy Ellingson contends with the deep mysteries of painting, reckons with her artistic forebears, and wrestles with existential questions.

Structured with strong underlying grids like those that animate Ellingson's paintings, the design holds the tension between her analogue and digital practice.

The interior typography grounded in it’s grid but never static gives a through line of Ellingson's structural rigor, bright color and expressiveness.

The cover’s mix of fluorescent ink on cloth creates a fluid movement between timeless and modern that gives the object its charge.