Tlön, Uqbar,
Orbis Tertius


2019

Form17︎10 cm
40 pages
inkjet print
Epson enhanced matte paper
hand-bound hardcover
bamboo paper dust jacket
Roles
Art direction
Design
Illustration
Book-binding

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius is a publication based on Jorge Luis Borges’ short fiction of the same name. Told in the first-person narrative, the story focuses on the protagonists’ discovery of the mysterious and fictional world of Tlön.

Acting as both art director and designer, I created the layout, typographic construction, photographs, and illustrations as ephemera from the imaginary land of Tlön in Borges’ story. This book is my attempt to place myself in that world momentarily, and is the resulting collection of a scholar who helped compile the encyclopedia of Tlön.