Other People's Shopping Lists
This project is the outcome of my lockdown collaboration with Emma Graney (www.emmagraney.co.uk). We worked together on this little book about her amazing collection of 500+ shopping lists that she found over 10 years. Emma’s collection is like an anthology of short stories. Each piece of paper can tell so much through all its details: the paper, the colours, the handwriting, the layout (or lack thereof). This has been a really fun project to work on!
We wanted the shopping lists to be the heroes of each page, therefore the layout is simple and minimalist - with just a few words that highlight our favourite items, or our favourite spelling mistakes.
The colourful chapter opening spreads feature a mix of different typefaces, a cheeky nod to the crazy amount of different handwriting styles that we found on the lists.
The endpapers feature a typographic pattern made of all the misspelled words and abbreviations that we found on the lists.