Espace Ness
La Paresse, book concept and design, in collaboration with Lucas Lejeune. Texts and artworks by Salomé Burstein, Margot Delalande, Charles Dubois, Julie Héneault, Paul Heintz, Claire Peressotti, Nolwenn Salaün, Benoît Vidal. Published by Résidence La Verrerie. Offset print, perfect bound, soft cover, pantone. Order via ness books. 128 pages, 18.5 x 26 cm, 2020
A Long List Of Safe Words (A.L.L.O.S.W). Book concept and design. Texts, essays, poems and haïkus by artist and poet Kevin Desbouis. Edited and published by Tombolo Presses. Order here. Offset and HUV soft cover. Inverted swiss binding. Edition of 350. 120 pages, 12,8 x 18 cm, 2019
Sarah Maldoror: cinema tricontinental, free bilingual newspaper accompanying the eponymous exhibition at Palais de Tokyo. Rotative printing, loose binding. Edition of 20,000. 32 pages, format berlinois, 2021
U Kill’d me First (Melody), publication following “Melody”, the installation created by David Douard for the 2022 edition of Sculpture Garden (Geneva).
Edition of 500. 52 pages, 21 x 29,7 cm, 2022
Study for No, catalogue for Issy Wood's exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations.
Edition of 900. 190 pages, 21 x 25,5 cm, 2023
Study for No, catalogue for Issy Wood's exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations.
Edition of 900. 190 pages, 21 x 25,5 cm, 2023
Coming Soon, catalogue for collective exhibition for Lafayette Anticipations. The publication includes curatorial notes about each work, a text by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, curator of the exhibition, and essays by Olivier Zeitoun, Kallado-Mcdowell, Sandrine Gasparine Alexandre, Kara Keeling, Martine Syms and Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone.
Edition of 900. 144 pages, 24 x 34 cm, 2024
Club d'Histoire Locale, website design and development, 2023
Klima n°6, Mutabilities, art and research magazine. Publication direction by Antonine Scali Ringwald and Loucia Carlier. Co-edited with Alicia Reymond.
Edition of 500. 160 pages, 20,5 x 29 cm, 2024
grazerkunstverein, development and design, 2022, i.c.w Julie Peeters
AP0KRYFERNA – NATTB0K, book design. Collection of poems by artist artist Alexander Sand. Cover and back cover illustrations by Paul Bernhard. Published by ness books. Black riso print, perfect bound, riso cover.
Order via ness books. 168 pages, 11 x 18 cm, 2018
Crumbs I'd rather stand, catalogue for Olu Ogunnaike's shows "Crumbs" at CAPC, Bordeaux and "I'd rather stand" at Museum Volkwang, Essen
Edition of 500. 128 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm, 2023
For an Investigation of Fictional Futurities, book design. Archive edited by Nelson Beer. Published by ness books. Black riso print, spiral bound, thick cover with sticker, ticket insert and plastic wrap.
Order via ness books. 200 pages, 21 x 29,7 cm, 2018
Puzzle Series (2), graphic investigation. CMYK Screen print on opaque white plexiglass.
On display during Signals from the Periphery, an international graphic design event initiated by Elisabeth Klement and Laura Pappa. July to August 2017, Tallinn Art Hall in Estonia.
Marilou Poncin, website design and development, 2018
baptistepenetticobra.com, website design and code, for Baptiste Penetticobra, 2022
Enlevés à Bougie, book design. Visual archive compiling documents from the kidnapping of a French state employee during the War of Independence, in 1960, Bougie, Algeria. Black digital print, glue bound, silver silkscreen jacket. Order via ness books.
170 pages, 15.2 x 22.9 cm, 2020
Ղարիբ ֊ Gharīb Pavilion, identity for the Pavilion of Armenia at the 59th Venice Biennale, for artist Andrius Arutiunian, 2022
The Gharīb Pocketbook, alternate catalogue of the Pavilion of Armenia at the 59th Venice Biennale, for artist Andrius Arutiunian
Edition of 1000. 256 pages, 10 x 13.8 cm, 2022
La Paresse, book concept and design, in collaboration with Lucas Lejeune. Texts and artworks by Salomé Burstein, Margot Delalande, Charles Dubois, Julie Héneault, Paul Heintz, Claire Peressotti, Nolwenn Salaün, Benoît Vidal. Published by Résidence La Verrerie. Offset print, perfect bound, soft cover, pantone. Order via ness books. 128 pages, 18.5 x 26 cm, 2020
Collection Hoorn, book design. Artworks by collective Mahony and text by Irene de Craen.
Edited and published by Hotel Maria Kapel. Order via ness books.
Offset print, section sewn, soft cover. Edition of 300. 128 pages, 12 x 16.5 cm, 2017
Sarah Maldoror: cinema tricontinental, free bilingual newspaper accompanying the eponymous exhibition at Palais de Tokyo. Rotative printing, loose binding. Edition of 20,000. 32 pages, format berlinois, 2021
Vagabondi Efficaci, book design. Curated by Costanza Candeloro. Published by Prospect Miranda. Offset print, sewn bound, silkscreen on plastic cover. Order via ness books. Edition of 250. 180 pages, 12.5 x 18 cm, 2019
Piero Heliczer: Poems & Documents, book design. Volume gathering a significant number of Heliczer’s poetic works through facsimile reproduction of his contributions to more than thirty periodicals published between 1958 and 1979. Edited by Benjamin Thorel and Sophie Vinet. Published by After 8 Books. Order here. Edition of 1000. 256 pages, 21.6 x 29.9 cm, 2021
Balenciaga Brandbook, initiated by Demna Gvasalia, texts by Natasha Stagg, published and distributed by Balenciaga.
Edition of 2500. 396 pages, 21 x 29,7 cm, 2021
Automated grid system for artist Christophe Lemaitre, research report. Images courtesy of the artist. 110 x 84 cm, 2019
U Kill’d me First (Melody), publication following “Melody”, the installation created by David Douard for the 2022 edition of Sculpture Garden (Geneva).
Edition of 500. 52 pages, 21 x 29,7 cm, 2022
Enlevés à Bougie, book design. Visual archive compiling documents from the kidnapping of a French state employee during the War of Independence, in 1960, Bougie, Algeria. Black digital print, glue bound, silver silkscreen jacket. Order via ness books.
170 pages, 15.2 x 22.9 cm, 2020
Computers at Work "About Women in Computing", book design. Written by Sophie Rentien Lando. Edited and published by ness Books. Laser print, perfect bound, soft cover. Order here. Edition of 270. 140 pages, 8 x 12 cm, 2019
The Artificial Kid, campaign identity for the annual curatorial cycle of Elsa Vettier at La Maison Populaire, Montreuil. Fonts by Maxime Selin, 2022
Naïve Gossip Theory, book design. An essay by Gianmaria Andreetta. Black riso print, glue bound, offset cover. Order via ness books (sold out). 80 pages, 13 x 18 cm, 2016
The Convent of Pleasure, book design. A play written by Margaret Cavendish in 1668. The play is a comedy about noblewomen who choose to retreat to a convent to create their own community in order to avoid the constraints and pains of marriage and men. Edited and published by Ness Books. Order here. Edition of 200. 76 pages, 10 x 15 cm, 2020
The God Sibling and the Belly Speaker, poster for the lecture and performance program initiated by artists Amelia Groom et Gianmaria Andreetta. Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, 2018
Vice Versa "America's Gayest Magazine" (1945), book design. Texts by Lisa Ben. Edited and published by ness Books. Laser print, perfect bound, soft cover. Order via ness books. Edition of 40. 140 pages, 21 x 29,7 cm, 2017
Crumbs I'd rather stand, catalogue for Olu Ogunnaike's shows "Crumbs" at CAPC, Bordeaux and "I'd rather stand" at Museum Volkwang, Essen
Edition of 500. 128 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm, 2023
Deux pierres retrouvées d’Amedeo Modigliani, book design. Concept and text by artist Christophe Lemaitre. Edited and published by Tombolo presses. Offset print, section sewn, soft cover with flaps. Order here. Edition of 350. 104 pages, 13,6 x 18 cm, 2019
(documentation by Aurélien Mole)
IRL N°1 – In Real Life: The MONEY Issue, magazine published by HEAD – Genève and HEAD Publishing. Interviews with Karl Nawrot, Norm, Brigade Cynophile, Serge Bloch, La Joie de lire, Karen Gliozzo-Schmutz, Fragmentin, Paula Scher and Martin Panchaud.
Edition of 800. 128 pages, 21 x 28 cm, 2024
L'homme nu, poster series for the exhibition of artist duo Deborah Bowmann. A3 wrapped silver frames, silver silkscreen on digital print, 2015
Le Magicien des Couleurs, newspaper design. Artworks by Louise Moins and tale by Arnold Lobel. Digital print, loose binding. Edition of 100. 8 pages, 350 x 500 mm, 2018
Showtime, event, part of the work on the identity of the annual curatorial cycle The Artificial Kid curated by Elsa Vettier at La Maison Populaire, Montreuil. 2022
Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, website development, 2020
i.c.w Estelle Vanmalle and Marcel Mrejen
Le Pâtissier Pittoresque, book design. A colourised version of the “Pâtissier Pittoresque”, first published in 1828 by french pastry chef Antonin Carême. It gathers more than a hundred sugar sculptures. Colourised by Robin Bantigny and Jérémie Rentien Lando. Risograph printing, silkscreen cover. Co-published by Jan Van Eyck Academie and Ness Books. Order via ness books. 136 pages, 26,5 x 35 cm, 2022
La Magie, book concept and design. Texts by Margot Delalande, Kazuki Fujita, Maud Gourdon, Camille Lamy, Jean Lesca, Marion Molle, Aurélien Potier. Published by Résidence La Verrerie. Offset print, perfect bound, soft cover, pantone and lamination. Order via ness books. Edition of 150. 68 pages, 18.5 x 26 cm, 2020
Puberté 2, poster series for the exhibition of artist Kevin Desbouis, on a proposal by Franck Balland. Ravisius Textor, Nevers. Inkjet print, 120 x 176 cm, 2019
Oblique, single by Nelson Beer, 2019
Résidence La Verrerie, website design and development, 2019
Klima n°6, Mutabilities, art and research magazine. Publication direction by Antonine Scali Ringwald and Loucia Carlier. Co-edited with Alicia Reymond.
Edition of 500. 160 pages, 20,5 x 29 cm, 2024
Le Magicien des Couleurs, newspaper design. Artworks by Louise Moins and tale by Arnold Lobel. Digital print, loose binding. Edition of 100. 8 pages, 350 x 500 mm, 2018

Espace Ness is a graphic design studio founded by Émilie Ferrat, Julie Héneault and Sophie Rentien Lando. We host book launches and exhibitions. Ness books is our publishing platform.


Espace Ness
9 Passage Saint-Pierre Amelot
75011 Paris, FR
info@espaceness.com

*We're unable to offer space for interships at the moment.