Icinori is a studio of designers, visual artists, screen printers and publishers dealing in art books, prints, animated books and concertina books. It is made up of one soul with two heads, four hands and twenty fingers, belonging to the French-Spanish-Japanese Mayumi Otero and French Raphaël Urwiller, two graduates from the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Strasbourg, where they met. They founded Icinori in 2007 when they were still students. Since then, they have been travelling, exploring, observing, illustrating and drawing together with a breath-taking attention to detail, displaying passionate meticulousness. Between them, they have self-published off-beat selection of 30+ books under Icinori publishing house, challenging the object that is a book. Three of their published works in particular epitomise their style and creativity: Travel book Seoul (Louis Vuitton, 2019), Et Puis (Albin Michel Jeunesse, 2018) and Issun Bôshi (Actes Sud Junior, 2014). Icinori’s work has also featured in Le Monde, Télérama, The New York Times, Wired, The New Yorker, Forbes, and the legendary Variety. The two artists exhibit their work in London, Bologna, Barcelona, Paris, Tokyo and Seoul — without ever really exhibiting themselves.