TO: A Book of Transformation
Book Design
Concepting
Typography
2026
This book starts with the concept of incense, an object that draws people from a religious space into the spiritual realm. As it burns away into trails of smoke, the tangible blends with the intangible. Centered around the theme of "Transformation," the book brings together ten articles exploring the concept, ranging from the mind-body-dream connection in the movie The Cell, to Wolfgang Laib’s sculptural philosophy, and anthropological liminality. As you physically tear through the pages, your hands and eyes work together to perceive time, offering a truly tactile and subtle reading experience.
As readers tear the pages away during the process, the opacity of the text gradually diminishes. This fading effect implies the transformation of burning incense, dissolving from a solid physical form into ashes.
Through delicate shifts in text tracking, leading and sizing, the typography simulates the fluid, changing nature of smoke and rising incense ash.
