BRIEF
In 2023 Beci came to us with an archive of her sketchbooks, and tasked us with creating a publication to celebrate 25 years of her independent practice. An integral part of Beci’s process, her sketchbooks are deeply personal — an archive of her brain, her work and her life, containing records of ideas, information and drawings.
RESPONSE
Our approach was to maintain the integrity and scale of Beci’s sketchbooks, by establishing a strict set of parameters for documentation and design:
—All content must be created in the scanner
—All content must be divided into decades
—All content must be represented at 1:1 scale
OUTCOME
The book essentially designed itself, with everything represented in verbatim. Organised into decades, it showcases the evolution and diversity within Beci’s practice. It also reveals a common thread, with Beci often inspired by femininity and femaleness, reflected in the many drawings of girls and things with a female-lean, and in the title ‘book of girls’, providing colourful window into Beci Orpin’s world and creative practice.
