The 'Imago' series for Dafne Editora is a series of 3 books about aesthetic theory by renown authors such as Jacques Rancière, Georges Didi-Huberman, and Victor Stoichita. These books were not of course conceived as a series – they are by different authors published at different times, and the originals have diverse cover styles. Instead Dafne choose to make them into a series which immediately implied that some sort of common visual treatment would need to exist in order to express this construct.

Some books are particularly resistant to visual summary and these are prime examples. They cover a very wide field of visual references and from the outset the idea was to avoid even trying to encounter images that might be in some way representative of their content in any literal or figurative sense. Instead, I chose to explore geometric optical patterns that would vary from cover to cover whilst maintaining an overall identity. The idea of patterns of recognition, in themselves abstract, was appealing in relation to aesthetic concepts, and the idea of a code which was both visual / optical, and sensory. The sensory element – which is difficult to represent in images – is contained in the printing of the covers through the use of paper (board), printing inks, and finish.