Editorial - Born to be naked?

“Born to be naked?” is a graphic book about women’s representation in Art History based on “Ways of Seeing” - a series by John Berger about art theory. I started this project by investigating the styles that would influence my work, such as postmodernism, feminist art, fanzines and punk aesthetics. The book has been designed with just two colours - the first one is magenta and the other one is a mix of magenta and cyan that gives a purple tone as result. They have been used in different ways to create new tones – you can see in the photos that the colours have been overlaid digitally but also physically, using papers with different opacities and colours. The project has been designed to be printed using risography and it has been manually bound using screws. The graphic style is eclectic but consistent throughout the book, mixing classic paintings that have been treated in Photoshop with clean vector graphics as well two kinds of typefaces and flat blocks of colour - creating a unique piece of design.

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