Nao SHIBUYA

The theme of this project is “books produced with western technology and western way of thinking, using Japanese materials”. Its objective is to make books with printers and bookbinders, with the cooperation of paper craftsmen and printing type studio. The books will be stored in The German Museum of Books and Writing (Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum) Museum in Leipzig (Germany) in the year 2006.

Letter press+Printing director : Albrecht Koelner
Book binding : Katja Zwirnmann
Japanies paper : mino washi no sato kaikan, tashiro, ishihara
Text trancelation : Christa Mehnert, Arve Stavran, Saori