Fedrigoni 365/2019

Fedrigoni 365, is an unprecedented collaboration involving 365 designers, illustrators and photographers from throughout the UK, gathered together by an open call for entries. Each participant was asked to contribute a piece of work interpreting a date provided to them at random. Confines were established to challenge each designer’s creativity by restricting the book to one colour print, which forced their pieces to focus strictly on concept, shape and form.

Through these parameters the Calendar has shaped into a beautiful visual story whose pace varies from page to page, and spread to spread. I was given 23 June. Inspired by the cutting and spooling of the ribbons used in the first QWERTY keyboard on a typewriter patented by Christopher Latham Sholes in 1868, 150 years ago to the day. 500 copies of the book will be sold with profits going to Shelter. Book design by TM Studio.