From tomorrow to Sunday (28/02 ~ 02/03) will take place testofirenze 📚 the editorial fair dedicated to contemporary publishing in Firenze, at Stazione Leopolda. 👉🏻 librifinticlandestini will be present at stand A31 supported by lotta.bindery.books 📖 showing a selection of handmade products, pop up editions and photographic books ✨ Due to an inconvenience, LFC will be not present phisically ❤️‍🩹 Anyway, let’s pass there to say hello to lotta.bindery.books :)

Last December has been made visible online and in some salmoiraghievigano store’s digital display a work we spent some time on last year: 3 handmade books 📔✂️along with a loooot of handmade stars 🌟✨⭐️ for essilorluxottica 2024 Christmas campaign 🎄🕶 👉🏻 Cut, fold and hand~manufactured in all its parts using fedrigoni.paper Sirio Pearl Aurum, Sirio Pearl Gold, Sirio Pearl ICE white, Sirio Pearl Merida Cream of different grammage along with different papers from LFC archive, the images have been finally postproduced by essilorluxottica graphic team. 👉🏻 The stars, in a total of 108 pieces, have been created in 13 different models, while the books, made with fedrigoni.paper Old Mill Premium White + an hardcover structures, were created with a gold-colored bookbinding cloth 🔔 📸 Studio photos by yumamigliaccio & martinamarzellaphotographer • • #librifinticlandestini #paper #handmade #papercrafts #papercrafting #papercut #book #luxottica #sunglasses #christmas #paperart #papercut #photostudio

Last one experiment in Chengdu 🇨🇳 scanning graphic signs around the city with our portable scanner! 🏗️👨‍🏭⚠️ 🤳 It allows to capture the smallest details flatly and with high contrast! #librifinticlandestini #archive #images #china #chengdu #sign #experiment #typo #colour #typography #work #scan #portablescanner #texture

In the last months we’ve been asked by atelier_vm to create something special as a scenario for their jewelry 💍 📚 So we create these pop up books in unique copy: handmade on a “Concertina Cilena” bases, these works contain surreal worlds in a Christmas atmospheres, serving as architectures for rings, necklaces, bracelets and earrings. They were designed to stay open like a sculptures, or be turned over page by page. 👉🏻 The books were created using ZANDERS Elephantenaut paper ( reflexgmbhco.kg ) from the ‘90s, along with elements and figures coming from old books and encyclopedias from the ‘60s, cutted one by one by hands. ✂️(Last photo was the research starting point). 🎥The photopgraphs and stop motion video of the work have been made by greats ilaria_zennaro (photographer) and myotto (videomaker) 🩵 ✨Thanks to lush_retina for made it possible! • • #librifinticlandestini #paper #books #paperengineering #popupbook #artistbook #jewelry #animation #stopmotion #handmade

Last expedition, which needed 6 months of preparation, with name code “Eastern Explorers V” has been one of the best total project we’ve ever done! 📚 🌏 It took us in Asia in a total journey of 4300 km by train, boat and plane in South Korea, China, Taiwan and Japan, including a passage through Yellow Sea 🌊 at 37th parallel north between Incheon and Weihai 🚢 👉🏻 With 304 handmade books, sketchbooks and pop up books + the exploration zines made with legends 🤝 5x_letterpress sc__nc spazienne 📓 sold during unlimited_edition_seoul 🇰🇷 taipeiartbookfair 🇹🇼 and tokyoartbookfair 🇯🇵 + the talk in Shanghai 🇨🇳 at archipelago_books 🏭, it was definitely a success! 💎 All this wouldn’t have been possible without the help of lunifatto 🫶 and the very precious support of ink_spoon pan.gu rinakosonobe02 ✨ 🥰 It was a pleasure met old friends and meeting new people! Let’s wait for the next adventure 📚

For ten years, almost every year, we have been coming to Tokyo 🇯🇵 to this second-hand bookstore, and we will never tell you where it is 😝 #librifinticlandestini #tokyo #books #booklover #paper #bookaddict #bookshop

LFC+5X at tokyoartbookfair in Japan 🇯🇵📚 at mot_museum_art_tokyo for as part 2️⃣/3 of the Asia fairs journey 2024! 🌏 📍Stand EN~047 in collab with 5x_letterpress (📍stand PR~202) 🥷🏻 + a talk about “RUINENLUST” project 🏭 dedicated to the exploration of industrial abandoned places in search of materials to be reused in experimental publications 📓 in collab with magic explorators sc__nc ⚡️ spazienne 💥 ➕ screen print on the wall of “Ruinenlust” project 🏭 made at varsi_artlab 🤝 56fili 🔥 #librifinticlandestini #books #editorial #artbookfair #tokyo #japan #selfpublishing #asia #tokyoartbookfair

For our Asia expedition of this year in Nov/Dic ‘24 (🇰🇷🇨🇳🇹🇼🇯🇵 codenamed “Mission Eastern Explorers V”), we created a sophisticated letterpress poster! 👉🏻 Hand-printed in 5 total passages: 3 different gradients in silver 🔘 + 2 layers mixing laser cut plates and lead typefaces in white ⚪️ 📚It concerns our participation at unlimited_edition_seoul 🇰🇷 South Korea, taipeiartbookfair 🇹🇼 Taiwan, tokyoartbookfair 🇯🇵 (talk + fair + workshop at letterpressletters by 5x_letterpress )in Japan and a talk made at archipelago_books in Shanghai 🇨🇳 China thanks to pan.gu 💥 ℹ️ 50 x 70 cm, Printed in edition of 30 copies on 300g black paper found in a typography outside Milan. • • • #librifinticlandestini #poster #typo #typography #graphic #design #manifesto #gradient #letterpress #letter #typedesign #artbookfair #posterdesign #posterart #typosters

LFC at taipeiartbookfair in Taiwan 🇹🇼📖🔥 as part 2️⃣/3 of the Asia fairs journey 2024! 🌏 📍A cluster of books, posters, fanzine and printing tests in collab with great 5x_letterpress 🏁 sc__nc 🚂 spazienne 💅 #librifinticlandestini #books #editorial #artbookfair #taipei #taiwan #selfpublishing #asia #paper #booklover