A Life Less Ordinary

Mulberry Mongoose is a jewellery workshop, located on a well-trodden elephant path in the remote Zambian bush. Local craftswomen make all the jewellery by hand using natural materials from the South Luangwa valley and this is their story...

This lovely little book, tells the story of how the enterprise began, the jewellery, the characters and the materials used to make the pieces. 

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The size of the book is a cute 130x95mm, portrait. The 40pp text is printed on Flora Anice, which as you can see from the image below has visible flecks of natural wood shives which gives the paper a visible, natural look.

The chapter divider spreads are printed using a gorgeous solid magenta...

Flora is produced with 30% post consumer de-inked waste, together with 60% of virgin FSC pulp 10% cotton fibres, which gives the paper a wonderful tactile feel. 

There are these superb illustrations used to illustrate the stories, absolutely gorgeous!

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...and similarly, the beautifully illustrated map:

The book is perfect bound, which as you can see from the image below is nice and neat with a 5mm spine. The excellent print and finishing is by Identity Print, printed offset litho throughout.

The Mulberry Mongoose brand identity and design is by Matt Morgan.

https://mulberrymongoose.com/

https://mattmorgan.io/

http://www.identityprint.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 23.03.2021