6 short workshop sessions, July 2025

Bumi Cha arrived from South Korea and joined us on the morning of July 15th. The studio was all set to welcome her and put her in the best possible position to understand what the Bologna Children’s Book Fair is, its atmosphere, and its story that can be told through thousands of objects.

 

The theme for 2026 will be permeated by faces, features and portraits. From the forehead to the chin, A space in which to build a dense and intense relationship between gazes.

 

We were to work together on 6 visual exercises. Small practical workshops to better understand the theme and to culminate in designing a matrix. We try not to fall into the “labile fantasizing” that Italo Calvino spoke of, rather we aim to cultivate the imagination methodically, persevering to seek out the image-pattern best suited to BCBF 2026.