les cerises — How to Catch a Cloud? — Ingrid Hora

How to carch a cloud? by Ingrid Hora is the new book from the publishing house les cerises – co-founded by Angelika Burtscher and Daniele Lupo with Agnese and Cecilia Canziani.

Clouds carry tiny, invisible drops of water—so small you can’t see them. In some parts of the world, where rain almost never falls, people are learning to catch those drops using giant nets, like spider webs stretched across the sky. The tiny water drops floating in the air get caught in the net, join together into bigger drops, and then into a bucket below. Clean water, caught right out of the sky!

How to catch a cloud? is a book full of drawings, stories, and discoveries about all the ways— big and small, ancient and new—that living things have learned to catch water from the air. Because water belongs to all. And sometimes, the sky is more generous than we think.

The book’s design, created by Lungomare, visually captures the idea of something being caught. An actual net catches the cloud and drops underneath it on the front and back cover of the book. This net-structure is made using the material “Gaze” that is typically used in the production process of a book and is never visible from the outside. Ingrid Horas’ illustrations are drawn with felt-tip pens in three different colors: bright blue, salmon red and black. The illustrations are printed in a book that reminds of a notebook, as if the artist just drew inside of it.