Cover with wrapping, issue 915, june 2008
Design of the wrapping: onlab,
Nicolas Bourquin and Kasper Zwaaneveld

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Cover, issue 915, june 2008
Photography: Daryl Banks, Crinoline Flowers, 2008

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The result, as in all self-respecting post-surrealist assemblages, is a magazine cover that is a simple yet effective mise-en-scène of a contemporary condition: the constant tension between mindless fun and a feeling of inexplicable anxiety for an indubitably uncertain future.

Cover Story, issue 915: Irina von Arx

onlab are not simply "art directors". Provoked by the complex themes proposed in this issue of Domus, which explores the social and political dimensions of insecurity, they have layered a picture of a poor animal, enraged against someone or something that we cannot see, over Banks's photos, just like in certain horrible nightmares where we sense the nearing of an evil presence of which we know nothing, which we have never even seen (and shall not even see at the end of the nightmare) but of which we already perceive the deadly danger for our life or for our psyche.