I’d like to introduce a book BUG’S BOOK, an art book designed by Chinese artist Zhu Yingchun. There is no human text from the title page to the final chapter, and all the images are made from the traces left by insects gnawing on vegetable leaves. The author spent five years collecting insect traces from a half-acre vegetable garden that served as a studio for 100 artists. It collected the movement tracks of different insects, such as snails, reptiles, earthworms and ladybugs, and then printed these traces, rearranged and edited them, and finally made this book without words.
This book wants to express the equality between man and nature, and any life in life is valuable. In this respect, the designer has been very successful. Because from the pictures, the traces left by the insects are so strange and mysterious that they even look like sacred Buddhist Sanskrit symbols. Without reading the book’s title, it is hard to imagine that this is what the humble worm of our lives left behind.
What this book taught me was that the content of a book does not have to be confined to words, but can be expressed in any way, which encouraged me to try more ways to design a book.