META KRESE —
Waiting in vain
The bilingual (Slovene + Italian) book by photojournalist Meta Krese documents the stories of the widows of Srebrenica who took shelter in refugee camps in the 1990s, where they still live. These camps were created as interim solutions, but they still exist today. Widows, their children and grandchildren live there with all the traumas of war that peace does not erase. The graphics of the book emphasize the marginality of the thematics through a layout where the contents are positioned at the edges of the pages and with a radical, minimal typographic and chromatic approach (just one font in use, one Pantone, materic papers). The book's title typographic design and its visual concept (the three O letters within the brackets) metaphorically remark the isolation of the protagonists of the narrated stories and photographies (three generations still living in the camps, after almost 30 years).
Technical details and certfications
Format: within pages A5 size 148×210 mm, cover A5 size 148×210 mm, outside cover-jacket 132x160 mm (bottom placed / stitched). Staple binding (three stitches). Print: within pages offset 4/4 + Pantone 2430 C, cover offset 4/4 + Pantone 2430 C, outside cover-jacket silkscreen Pantone 2430 C + deep black spot color. Papers: within pages Fedrigoni Arcoprint 130 gsm, cover Fedrigoni Arcoprint 300 gsm, outside cover jacket Fedrigoni Materica 360 gsm. Printed by Riccigraf (Trieste, Italy). Photos and contents / text by Meta Krese. Poems by Maruša Krese. Translations, proofreading: Darja Betocchi, Karin Marc. Typeset in Regola Pro by Piero Di Biase. Edited by Slovenski klub in november 2021. Run: 500 copies. The project got the Fundacija Brumen Award 2022 Recognition for Excellent Slovenian Design. It was exhibited at the 10th Brumen Biennial of Slovenian Graphic Design at Narodna Galerija in Ljubljana (Slovenia). Physical copies of the project are part of the MAO collection (The Museum of Architecture and Design of Slovenia).
