People of the Mud by Luis Alberto Rodriguez turns a dancer's eye to rural Irish culture. Using choreography and arrangement alongside naturalistic portraits and details, Rodriguez's work invokes the interrelationship between cultural identity and the landscape, and how both are constructed through hands and bodies over many centuries.
We worked closely with Luis on the handprinting and reproduction of his images, printed here as rich, warm tritones. House inside a slipcase, People of the Mud is an exercise in letting the relationship between classic book design and modern ideas naturally merge, using a bold unreleased typeface by Abi Huynh alongside elegant, warm papers and materials.
Loose Joints Publishing, 2020
114 pages, 63 tritone plates, 230 × 275 mm
Section-sewn embossed hardcover housed in a handmade slipcase
Texts by Tim Walker and Orla Fitzpatrick
978-1-912719-14-3, LJ135
Book Design, Production, Editing
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