Superlight is for those interested in contemporary art and digital media and serves to document the 2006 and 2008 01SJ Biennials of digital media presented by ZER01. Formal and material decisions were gleaned from the title Superlight — the design concept, simply put, explored all things “light.” We chose to print on lightweight, high-bulking uncoated paper using quick-setting UV inks for both image quality and black-on-black effects. The visible light spectrum was repurposed as an organizational device (red and orange: 2008 front matter and essays; yellow: artist works; green: special projects; turquoise: companion exhibitions; blue and violet: 2006 Biennial documentation), the sections divided by thin translucent sheets printed with the spectral rainbow. Interior pages explore the overprinting of color on black. The light spectrum manifests itself once again, more subtly, on the cover — which has a color shifting varnish (pink to green) and lastly, the cover title treatment cut by laser light.
6.375" x 9", 336 pages
perfect bound, softcover with color changing UV coating and laser cut title, 2/2 and 5/5 interior sections, 3/0 tipped-in translucent sheets
Design collaboration with Andrew Blauvelt
ZER01
978-0982145807
Art, Flexible, Overprinting, Spectrum