For 1 year, starting in February 2024, the artist duos SM studio and Florian Emden will engage in an epistolary correspondence.
Each month, one pair will write and design a letter to be sent to the other and Colorama will riso-print and distribute them. In this published, monthly correspondence, the duos will write about current reflections on their work, themes of inspiration and friendship, merging fiction and documentation with design work.
Letter 1: On Intimacy, Privacy, and language
Letter 2: On Rituals, lentils, and thinking together
Letter 3: On swallows, libraries, and rain
Letter 4: On the Climates, romance, Chateaus, dogs
Letter 5: On eggs, answering questions, the institution, and rain again
Letter 6: On craving, buying and learning to swim
Letter 7: On being a body and asking the mountains; on holes and taking one’s taste down memory lane
Letter 8: On the movie For Aicha by Meriem Bennani (underlying) and Milanese risotto (overjoying)
Letter 9: On Portals, Beginnings, Monsters, tears, and PMS.
Letter 10: On Loving, caring, changing, opening new doors.
Letter 11: On sowing seeds and loving dogs; on rituals, romance, and growing.
Letter 12: On endings, beginnings and shared time
About the artists:
Both duos operate under a shared authorship, including research and referencing into their work.
SM Studio is the London-based collaborative design practice of Molly Cranston and Safiye Gray. They work across print, book design and intertwined image-text. Their approach is guided by deep friendship, intuitive making processes and expansive research.
Florian ∞ Emden design posters, spaces, fonts, and books, influenced by the feelings they share in their friendship. Cradled between typography and writing they live, love, work, and laugh in Leipzig, Germany.
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