Book presentation day at the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino

The Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino (Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art) has published this book titled Tramas. Laboratorio transdisciplinar de debates interculturales (“Wefts. Transdisciplinary Laboratory for Intercultural Debates”). It brings together the work of nine indigenous people who participated in a scholarship and internship program offered by the museum in collaboration with the Corporación Nacional de Desarrollo Indígena (National Corporation for Indigenous Development).

The main editorial challenge of the project was to give unity to very different texts, both in terms of content and form: there are short and poetic texts (with and without images), essays, academic texts, and content such as a catalog of artworks (photographic documentation). In addition, a clear distinction had to be made between the projects of the fellowship and the internship.

The design proposal of the book is articulated by a simple geometric pattern in two colors that define the division between the first part (scholarship: magenta) and the second part (internship: cyan). The binding is with an exposed spine, which allows a 180° opening and gives the opportunity to use the double page at its maximum expression. Thus, we draw a permanent pattern that separates the book thematically and literally since it divides and articulates the double page. We used the Brandon Text sans serif family, the font of the museum's visual identity, and the Violeta serif family with its variant Violeta Jardinera.

The pattern dividing the double page is drawn on the exposed spine and visually separates the two parts of the book.

The table of contents plays with the vertical axis that divides the entire book.

Presentation of Part One: American Futures Scholarship. Later, a similar pattern in cyan and black introduces the second part of the book.