bamboo 22 was curated by angelo bucci and spbr and took latin america as its theme.
in conjunction with the editors, we tried to take a modern, non-folkloric look at the region. the cover uses joaquín torres garcia’s famous drawing as the base for the composition and a poem by oswald de andrade as the lead-in.
the pantone brown of the march issue is always harder for us to work with, as it suggests the artisanal and folkloric. here, the cyan blue drawing strikes a potent contrast.