2ly Catalog

2ly catalog, with an overview of all letters on one side and inisights into the design process on the backside. A1, folded to A4. Offset-printed in an edition of 250.

2ly, a one-year-long epistolary correspondence between artist duos SM Studio (London) and Florian∞Emden (Leipzig).

Initiated in February 2024, each month, one pair wrote and designed a letter that was riso-printed and distributed by Colorama (Berlin), then sent to the other duo and their cohort of mail-art subscribers. The letters explore a mutual love of writing, drawing, folding and borrowing. Publishing, here, is understood as a shared authorship in every sense. They began with this quote: “Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy.” The installation by the creators of 2ly presents the shared visual language that has developed over their correspondence.