Naar inkt Vissen • Fishing for ink
A fishy smelling book silk screened with squid ink
The 48-page book, entitled ‘Naar Inkt Vissen’ (which translates to ‘Fishing For Ink’),
contains 20 sailors' tales written in Dutch and is accompanied with pictures from various
illustrators. We used one-and-a-half liters of the dark pigment from the sea to screen-print
700 books. We fetched the squid ink at the fish auction in Scheveningen, at the Dutch coast.
contains 20 sailors' tales written in Dutch and is accompanied with pictures from various
illustrators. We used one-and-a-half liters of the dark pigment from the sea to screen-print
700 books. We fetched the squid ink at the fish auction in Scheveningen, at the Dutch coast.
Menno Smit en Edwin de Voigt – two Dutch authors and for the occasion seadogs –
wrote twenty stories which should be taken with a huge grain of salt.
wrote twenty stories which should be taken with a huge grain of salt.
On top of using squid ink, ‘Naar Inkt Vissen’ was also bound using Japanese stab-binding
technique—with fishing wire - to tie the 48 stinking pages firmly together.
technique—with fishing wire - to tie the 48 stinking pages firmly together.
Created @ Today Designers 2013
Silk screend @ Kapitaal, Utrecht
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