COLORS Notebook is a COLORS project, launched in 2006 in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou and Reporters Without Borders, to give a voice to people who are never heard.
Blank copies of COLORS Notebook were sent to people nobody listens to: Chinese prison inmates, South African children, artists, astronauts, people with mental disorders, or just ordinary people going about their everyday life. The book, published by Birkhäuser, and divided into Faces and Violence sections, is composed of a selection of the Notebooks sent back to COLORS from more than 50 world nations. With no filters or censoring, these Notebooks describe situations of isolation, hardship or suffering, but they also display amazing creativity and flair.
The two sections presented in Berlin include contributions and interviews with prestigious personalities from the graphic and communication fields: Milton Glaser and Steven Heller for »Faces«, Rick Poynor and Stefan Sagmeister for »Violence«.
