Domus 921 – Cover
January 2009 - design by onlab
Creative Direction and Concept: Nicolas Bourquin & Sven Ehmann; Graphic Design: Thibaud Tissot
Publisher: Editoriale Domus, Milan, Italy
Cover with wrapping, issue 921, january 2009
Design of the wrapping: onlab, Thibaud Tissot

Cover, issue 921, january 2009
Photography: Paul Graves, Phenomenon 3, from the balloon sculpture series, 2008

A simulacrum of the human body with the unsettling fragility of a grotesque bloated bundle of melancholy pathos. In fact, the baloon sculptures are destined to live only a few hours, because of the fleeting durability of the material.
Cover story, issue 921: Francesco Bonami
This bizarre alchemistic transformation, frozen into a loony anatomy made of balloons, is accompanied by the image used for the plastic outer cover, depicting a composition of birds in reference to the swarms of starlings that have taken up residence in the skies over Rome.