About the cover:

Full paper binding Cardboard binding à la Bradel, multicoloured paper patchwork, title embossed on several coloured diamonds distributed on the front cover, bright yellow coloured top edge, multicoloured paper endpapers, endpapers coloured in several shades of grey, plus a few coloured diamonds, grey-green fabric flap box, colourful foil embossing of the title on a narrow strip of paper patchwork on the spine.

Design idea: The pattern of individual colourful diamonds, like paper kites floating freely and endlessly towards the sky, symbolises the poems in the book, which have finally been allowed to be written freely in Estonia since 1992.

About the content:

Various authors: Names, Words, Witch's Symbols

Ex. No. 55 of a total of 700

Published by Jürgen Rooste, Tallinn 2015 Joint project of the Estonian Literature Centre and the Estonian Association of Designer Bookbinders.

Poems in Estonian, English and German

About the artist: After training as a bookbinder with Jacob Kohnert in Berlin, she graduated from Guildford College in England with a diploma in ‘Fine Binding and Paper Conservation’ and passed her master craftsman's examination in Bremen in 2000. This was followed by employment as a demonstration craftswoman and as a course instructor for further training in several places in Europe. Since 2004 she has been running her own master workshop for bookbinding and cover art in Plombières in Belgium. She works as a lecturer at various schools, including the cbl in Ascona, the Academy of Design in Cologne, the Bookbinding College Stuttgart and the Genks Academie voor Beeldende Kunst & Media (B).

Ingela Dierick regularly takes part successfully in international cover competitions and regularly participates in exhibitions. She has been President of the MDE since 2018.