To emphasise the unbearable rise in temperature, the letters gradually loosen themselves from the rigid type area and dissolve into a chaotic cloud, barely legible, as if they were vaporized. I made sure that information is never lost in the process: in theory, you could read all the way to the end, but at some point, it becomes too exhausting to continue, mirroring the fate of the characters in the novel, who ultimately all die from the escalating heat.
Every chapter is bound in its own signature. The outermost sheet of each signature is an orange paper that reveals more and more of its colour as doomsday approaches in the story. This results in the gradient on the back due to an open binding.
To get a feel for the region in which the story is set, I travelled to the region of Lavaux for three days. There, I documented everything I witnessed, resulting in an extensive photographic sequence with Lake Geneva in the focus, which is printed throughout the book.
