Engineering
Baby
An editorial exploration of cloning that combines illuminated manuscript aesthetics with contemporary scientific imagery to question humanity’s growing role as creator.
Creation, control, and the desire to play God.
Engineering Baby explores cloning through a visual language inspired by illuminated manuscripts. By merging sacred historical aesthetics with scientific subject matter, the book questions the ethical tension between innovation, artificial life, and human authorship over creation.
Sacred
Illuminated manuscript references suggest faith, authority, divine creation, and historical systems of belief.
Scientific
Cloning and biotechnology introduce the language of progress, artificial life, and engineered existence.
Tension
The collision of both worlds questions whether creation is still divine, human, or manufactured.
Luminari
Academy Engraved LET
Dominican Regular
Editorial grid
Controlled margins
Manuscript-inspired framing
Ornamentation
Scientific imagery
Sacred composition
Close-up details — ornamentation, hierarchy, texture, and typographic rhythm
A book system built around meaning, not decoration.
The final publication uses editorial design as conceptual storytelling. Every visual decision — from manuscript-inspired framing to the pacing of the spreads — reinforces the central idea of humanity attempting to engineer creation.