Light Blue Desire by MagaliDuzant is as an artist book that lyrically maps the amorphous meaning of the word blue.

The book’s die cut cover references a cyanometer, an instrument for measuring the color intensity of blue sky. The motif is carried throughout the book, serving as wayfinding within each chapter.

Coil binding, utilitarian typography, and gridded and ruled pages lend a didactic quality to this “manual for the color blue.”