Leporello: the accordion book reinventing art and publishing

For Sylvania we came up with the idea of creating a timeline in the form of a leporello to mark the brand's 100th anniversary.

But what is it?

A Leporello is a type of book or brochure folded like an accordion, allowing several pages to be unfolded at once by stretching them out. This accordion fold takes its name from a character in a Mozart opera, Leporello, the valet in Don Giovanni, who keeps a list of his master's romantic conquests in the form of a long unrolling register.

Leporellos are often used in art and publishing to present series of images, portfolios, comic strips or projects requiring a continuous layout. They are popular for exhibitions and visual projects because they allow images to be displayed side by side, giving an overview.

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