Project: Spring Snow --
A Translation

Client: Book Works

Date: 2002

Designer: James Goggin
Japanese Typesetting: Miho Tanaka

Book Works commissioned me to design an artist book with British artist Alison Turnbull. 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.

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