Project

Lumps

Client

Morten Torgersrud

Location

Oslo, NW

Category

print

Year

2016

Team

Theo Ford, Jonas Topooco, Daniel Olsson (Research & Development)

Whilst working at Research & Development I collaborated collaborated with Daniel Olsson and Jonas Topooco on the book design for Norwegian artist Morten Torgersrud 'Lumps'. The project consists of a series of photographs depicting clods of mud dug out of the landscape of The High North, the northern region of Norway bordering the arctic region and Russia. The lumps appear as abstract sculptures — studies in form and materiality, yet simultaneously are images of specific places, quite different from prevailing methods of dealing with landscape in photography.

The design of the book simply presents the images and accompanying text with as little baggage as possible, through a simple grid based on the golden ratio in which to arrange images and text.