Fedrigoni 365/2026

For this edition, I was invited to interpret not only a number but also a paper. The result is a striking collective exploration of a deceptively simple question: how does colour make you feel? Each page reflects a personal encounter with one of Fedrigoni’s many papers, expressed through hue as well as through qualities of tactility, density, brightness and surface response.

Fedrigoni 365/2026 is presented as thirteen individual books, each a chromatic chapter within a wider spectrum. Placed together, their covers form a complete colour wheel, a deliberate and elegant reflection of the complexity and emotional range of colour itself. Inside, each book showcases a curated selection of papers, similar in tone yet strikingly different in character and finish. Smooth contrasts with rough, coated with uncoated, pearlescent with matte. Each page carries its own emotional resonance and reveals how even subtle differences in material can influence thought and feeling. Creative choices do more than communicate; they stir memory, trigger sensation and shape lasting emotional responses.

My summer holiday in Puglia led my inspiration. Through this, my research and experimentation, I discovered Diane Victor and Alberto Burri, fumage artists. Fumage is a surrealist art technique in which impressions are made by the smoke of a candle or kerosene lamp on a piece of paper or canvas. Mesmerised by the celeste azzurro skies, and aptly named paper using the same name, I created my number five on Fedrigoni Sirio Celeste paper to illustrate five scorching days in Italy using the fumage technique.