The One Weekend
Book Series

2003 — Vol.1
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Tim Faulwetter and
Martin Lorenz

Frankfurt am Main, July 2003, hottest summer in over 500 years. Good for wine, bad for us. We sneak, shadow to shadow, in an attempt to catch images at the River Main, me drawing Tim cutting. Competitors of the Ironman flatten us on their bikes, on our way home. At 21.00 o’clock the temperature is finally back to body temperature. We won, but Heat passes the stick on to Sleep. Coffee, Coke, Elephants and White Stripes we use anything within reach. At 5.00 o’clock, Sleep wins; we retreat for a moment, then continue working until another sun comes out again. The first volume of «The One Weekend Book Series» is a diary of two sun-burned Germans who tried to live 48 in 24.

Martin Lorenz: Tim, you took part in the first edition of «The One Weekend Book Series». What was that like for you?

Tim Faulwetter: I really enjoyed spending the weekend in Frankfurt with you all and working together on the inaugural edition. What I particularly liked about the project was the way we collaborated—exchanging ideas about design directly and inspiring one another. Watching the book take shape right before our eyes. And then, at the end of the day, holding the first edition of «The One Weekend Book Series» in our hands, feeling proud and happy.

M.L.: What did the project’s one-weekend time limit mean for you?

T.F.: A weekend isn’t much time to design a book. But that made our work more spontaneous—more «gut-driven»—than it would have been without that tight timeframe.

M.L.: I think that spontaneity really comes through in the book, too. To me, it feels very lively and unpretentious. How does the book strike you now, a year and a half after we created it?

T.F.: It’s fun to look at it again after so much time has passed—even though we actually made it back in July 2003.

M.L.: Is there anything else you remember?

T.F.: It was essentially a 24-hour production, since we didn’t start until Saturday at noon and I left sometime that afternoon; that’s why you ended up incorporating that digital clock display on some of the pages. You did a lot of drawing; I did a lot of cutting and pasting, and all the while you were singing along to the odd White Stripes song. Elephant was playing quite a lot that weekend. It was a scorching hot day. 2003 was a record-breaking year for heat, after all. A good vintage for wine, too 😉