James Goggin was commissioned to design a 'translation' of a Japanese book with Alison Turnbull. The result was this - 'Spring Snow'.
"For the project, Turnbull collected all the colour descriptions from Yukio Mishima’s novel 'Spring Snow' and annotated them as a series of colour charts.
Designed in the traditional Japanese novel bunko format, ‘Spring Snow -— A Translation’ is exactly that: a visual translation of Mishima’s text ordered by colour. Novelist Tony White wrote a psuedo-fictitious introduction for the project which was in turn translated back into Japanese".
Last week's colour workshop made me realize the impact that just colour can have - something that is clearly shown here. I think this 'translation' is really innovative and it becomes more interesting because of the meaning behind it.
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