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alex sent us a copy of the book and asked that we might design the cover for it. caspar read it and sent alex a few ideas. the final cover you see here is intended to be a bit cryptic, and only reveal its real meaning the deeper you get into the book.

the novel is out now through all major booksellers, and in fact you can order yourself a copy here. alex also made a playlist of 90s music mentioned in the book and that inspired the book here.

she wanted to call the book "screenshots." it was therefore up to us to find a way to talk about the way these photographs had been taken, during the pandemic, whilst also commemorating them as the beautiful series that they were. one particularly nice feature of the book is that fanny also took screenshots of each of her friend's google maps location, and coupled this with their portraits. we translated this particular idea into a kind of "match cut," to speak cinematically for a moment, so that the map image in each case directly corresponded to the first image of her friend on the following page. this is a feature that can only really be enjoyed with the book physically in your hands, which is of course the point.

a canvas-bound, rather experimental and intuitive affair, the book attempts to capture the nature of thomas's paintings not just through reproductions of the work, but via the accompanying essays, interviews and free-form designed layouts.