Light Blue Desire by Magali Duzant
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Light Blue Desire by MagaliDuzant is as an artist book that lyrically maps the amorphous meaning of the word blue.
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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.
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Coil binding, utilitarian typography, and gridded and ruled pages lend a didactic quality to this “manual for the color blue.”
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