33,000 Km Accroché à un bout de bois

Book Design

33,000 KM – Attached to a Piece of Wood tells the story of Giorgio’s extraordinary journey around the world on his wooden bicycle. He envisioned the book as both a personal record of his adventure and a way to showcase the stunning photography he captured along the way.

Designed as a travel journal, each entry documents a single day on the road, inviting the reader to experience the journey step by step. To help orient the reader throughout the book, I incorporated the total distance traveled alongside the page number, as well as the distance traveled each day and GPS coordinates of Giorgio’s location at the start of each entry. These small details reinforce the scale of the journey while grounding each story in a specific place and moment.

This project was an absolute joy to bring to life, a thoughtful balance of storytelling, structure, and visual space that allows both the words and photographs to shine.

A landscape of a desert with a man standing next to a bicycle in the foreground. Overlaid on the sky is the table of contents showing eight images with corresponding page numbers and locations.
Photograph of the Arc de Triomphe in Brussels during sunset, with a few people walking around and the cobblestone ground in view.
A black and white image showing three men sitting at a table outdoors under a large umbrella, with potted plants and trees in the background, in a garden or patio setting.
A page from the book design with text on the left and a photo of a landscape with hot air balloons in the sky on the right.
Page from the book design with text in French, with section titles in red and orange, containing personal stories, travel experiences, and reflections on Pakistan and Iran.
A two-page open book spread. The left page has a title in red, and the right page has a similar title also in red. Both pages contain columns of text in French, with some red quotes and section headers about the writer's travels.
A desert cliffside with a tent and mountain bikes on a dirt trail overlooking the ocean during daytime.
A magazine spread with a story about Day 240 at La Triple Frontière, featuring a mountainous landscape with snow-capped peaks, a semi-arid plain with grazing llamas or alpacas, and a colorful sky during sunset.

This project brought together book design, photography, and personal storytelling to create a travel journal that feels expansive, intimate, and easy to follow. Every design choice, from the page structure to the distance markers and GPS coordinates was created to help readers move through Giorgio’s journey one day at a time while giving his photographs the space to shine. Do you have a meaningful story or visual book project that needs thoughtful design?

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