Museum Meditations
Concept of the publication, design and layout, editing and sequencing, and production management.
Museum Meditations is a small publication made in conjunction with Jorma Puranen’s exhibition at the Aboa Vetus Ars Nova Museum in Turku, Finland.
For this book I used bulky yellowish Arctic Volume that has a nice uncoated feeling but still allows a superb printing quality. Although the paper is already warm in tone it still accepts a warm printed background tone on every page. As a contrast to that I used dark blue Geltex Silks for the front and end papers. The book begins with a three spread collage-type selection of small illustrations and photographs followed by larger photographic works.
The format of the book is quite close to A4 size, while still being slightly smaller and shorter. Although it is so close to the most commonly used paper format, the feeling of the book is unusual; it feels surprisingly narrow and tall.
The essay Path North by Alistair Hicks is set in Nexus Serif, a typeface with a relatively large point size. It is both beautiful and easy to read.
| Artist | Jorma Puranen |
| Publisher | Jorma Puranen / Aboa Vetus Ars Nova Museum Turku |
| Size | 200 × 280 mm |
| Content | 64 pages / 40 images |
| Language | English and Finnish |
| Texts | Alistair Hicks |
| Fonts | Nexus serif Pro, Nexus Sans Pro and Gotham Thin |
| Paper | Arctic Volume Ivory 150 g, front and end papers: Geltex silks 115 g |
| Binding | Sewn binding, hard cover |
| Printing | UV offset printing |
| ISBN | 978-952-5820-23-2 |
