The first edition of Magdalene Odundo's Journey of Things won Best Book Design at the 2020 Tokyo Type Directors Club Awards in Japan.

The publication experiments with the conceptual, formal and structural potential of the book, comprised of a series of interleaved sections presenting an organic flow of content which pairs and juxtaposes the historic and the contemporary, featuring works of multiple renowned artists and ancient artefacts. It challenges the status and role of the art catalogue through the exploration of a series of dichotomies – past/present, hard/soft, ephemeral/permanent with the intention of creating a mood which is both contemporary and classical.