While I was surfing, I’ve been positively struck by the way “We are the fiction” website re-creates the book’s cover.

One small step backwards.

We Are The Friction is a book of illustration and short fiction created by 12 pairs of international writers and illustrators. It’s the second book edited, designed and published by Sing Statistics, the collaborative concern of Jez Burrows and Lizzy Stewart.

The book paired writers with illustrators, both established and emerging in their disciplines. Each then produced new work inspired by the work of their partner: stories from illustrations, and illustrations from stories. The result is an erratic, eclectic collection of work that takes in space travel, Japanese deities, monster husbandry, and the Marx.

Everyone can acknowledge the effort to recreate on the website the same graphic of the book: same colour palette, same type, a three columns layout grid and dotted vertical lines do the trick of making the two look like the job of just one creative hand.