Taratine, Daisuke Yokota, 2015

Taratine is a publication of Daisuke Yokota photographs of landscapes, portraits and still lives, printed using a darkroom technique that involves heat that creates a textural patterning in the images

For the book, the idea of heat is translated through the commercial printing processAfter experimenting with offset thermography for common room’s letterhead, we were interested in exploring two-sided silkscreen thermography translated to a much larger printing sheet

Printed with Die Keure after many tests, the cover and an interior section of text and images are rendered in raised ink silkscreen thermographyTypeset in Helvetica Medium and Hiragino Sans, the book is otapur bound with hot meltThe soft cover is glued onto white endpapers, giving it more strength