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Finished copies of Will Steacy's collection of essays, "The Photographs Not Taken" bound with a three hole pamphlet stitch using kitchen twine.
Regarded as one of the very finest books from a fine press, and set in their own Golden Cockerel type designed by Eric Gill in 1929, it is interesting that what I have read about this book is the feeling that the engravings and the lettering are not a 'prefect marriage'. Well, I wouldn't mind a copy! Mary Groom (1903 - 1958) was a fine wood engraver as can be seen here in this edition of Milton's Paradise Lost.
This is research we are doing to determine the style & design of our upcoming book on business model innovation...
We were contacted by our client, Donna Scoates Nixon of Voices of Value to design a series of books compiling quotes relating to specific topics. The first in this 7 x 7 book series is a call to “Action”.
This beautiful book is a compilation of photographs and journal entries from several couples who took a lifelong trip to Holy Land. We used the best images from each of the couples to create this keepsake as a gift for all who traveled to this special place.
A quick and dirty selection of pages from my first book design project. We were tasked with laying out part of The Kamasutra, consisting of the first book and three commentaries (including commentary on commentary).
The back part of the book, featuring commentary by Shastri and Doniger & Kakar.
Now that is elaborate! Illuminated manuscript from the collection of the Vadiana.
The text is from Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita (Liv.31,2-2)
This is research we are doing to determine the style & design of our upcoming book on business model innovation...
The Cresset Press was formed in 1927 by Dennis Cohen and published a fascinating selection of books for 40 years until it was sold upon the retirement of the two owners retired in 1966/7. This small catalogue is very avant-garde; the cover and a series of black pages with red text, each overlain with a sheet of acetate describing the title and author. Spirally bound this copy has suffered a little but it remains an interesting item. At times the Press had some association with James Shand of the Shenval Press and this certainly has a 'feel' of some of their work.
A quick and dirty selection of pages from my first book design project. We were tasked with laying out part of The Kamasutra, consisting of the first book and three commentaries (including commentary on commentary).
Notes! The back part of the book, featuring commentary by Shastri and Doniger & Kakar.
A quick and dirty selection of pages from my first book design project. We were tasked with laying out part of The Kamasutra, consisting of the first book and three commentaries (including commentary on commentary).
A spread from Chapter 3. It was one of the easy ones because we didn't have commentary.
The rear cover of the "Marine Manual" issued as a piece of publicity by - yes, Wakefield's Castrol Oils! It is quite a stylish item, along with the equally 'deco' style front cover. Castro,is still a huge brand but it is no longer owned by C C Wakefield & Co Ltd, the company founded in 1899 having sold out in 1966 to Burmah Oil and now owned by BP. No artist or designer is given.
O libro de Manuel Rico Verea e Antón Santamarina ten a intención de recopilar e recuperar algunhas das cancións populares que forman parte do noso patrimonio musical.
Organizado por xéneros e temáticas, sempre foi vontade dos autores que o cancioneiro tivese as características dun libro de peto —manexable, transportable e económico— que permitise facer uso del en romerías, seráns, foliadas, festas familiares, etc.
Esta vontade condicionou as decisións de deseño e edición do libro. A tripa estrutúrase por cadernos de 16 páxinas rodeados de dípticos de cor, organizando o contido por xéneros ou temáticas musicais. Cun formato para gardar en calquera peto —105x160 mm— as esquinas da publicación redondéanse para facilitar o transporte e evitar o seu deterioro.
Amáis do pequeno formato, a encadernación co lombo solto permite abrir facilmente o libro e suxeitalo cunha man —sobre todo se se está a cantar mentres se le unha letra ou melodía.
Coa convicción de que os elementos gráficos e visuais do libro deben comunicaran aspectos parellos ao contido, neste caso da cultura popular galega, traballamos con recortes fotográficos dos panos tradicionais —panos rameados— que nos serviron para ilustrar as cubertas e os diferentes capítulos do libro. Recuncando na mesma idea os papeis nos que se imprimen os motivos florais dos panos son papeis gofrados cunha textura que lembra á das telas.
As cubertas cheas de flores queren celebrar a primavera, os maios e o día das letras galegas, día de publicación deste cancioneiro de peto: Eu non canto por cantar.
Cover design for the book I designed on blurb.com. Its a collection of photography that I took while I was in New York last year.
This is a book design and execution that I created for Susan Kozel's book Closer published by the MIT press.
It was an assignment in a UCLA Design | Media Arts Class. The front portion of the book is comprised of all the text and images, clearly setup into a four row system, which aligns to the four flipbooks at the very back of the book.
CD Packaging for Juno winning Jazz Musician Chris Tarry.
Agency: Rethink Canada
Design: Jeff Harrison
Illustration: Kim Ridgewell
Producer: Kerry Bhangu
Accounts: Daylan Wong
Printing: Metropolitan Fine Printers
Cantos de berce
Manuel Rico Verea
Editorial
Gadis
Deseño
desescribir
Tipografía
Tiempos
Paper Stock
Coral Book 90 g/m2
Gardapat Kiara 250 g/m2
Impresión
Offset
Interior (1 spot ink)
Cuberta (duotono Pantone Real Black+Pantone Prata + UVI verniz
Páxinas
105
Formato
115x160mm
photographed by
Frank Dinger
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O concurso arquia/próxima, organizado pola Fundación Caja de Arquitectos, ten como finalidade dar apoio e difusión aos arquitectos do estado nos primeiros dez anos de exercicio profesional.
O encargo requería dar identidade gráfica ao concurso e ao foro arquia/próxima do ano 2012, titulado “Nuevos Formatos”. Os soportes que era preciso deseñar eran: un cartel, un políptico e un catálogo físico e dixital (web) coas obras recoñecidas.
Desde o inicio do proxecto consideramos a relación entre os soportes en base a unha idea e un concepto máis que mediante a aplicación constante dunha gráfica determinada. Coas cores corporativas e co formato do catálogo en papel xa determinados, comezamos a indagar sobre a finalidade do concurso: a visibilidade e promoción dos estudios de arquitectos novos. Con ese obxectivo en mente, e tendo sempre presente o título de 'Nuevos Formatos', pensamos nos fanzines, publicacións autoeditadas moi comúns no mundo da arquitectura desde os anos 60, como base da identidade do concurso, relacionando, a través dese formato, os seus distintos soportes.
Por outra banda, coa intención de comunicar o desgaste que leva consigo o concepto de 'Nuevo' no mundo da arquitectura e do deseño, deseñamos a identidade visual en contradición co título 'Nuevos Formatos', elaborando impresións 'analóxicas' mediante técnicas case en desuso: tipografías de madeira, diferentes plantillas, máquinas de escribir… (vimeo.com/49371560) posteriormente dixitalizadas, continuando coa lóxica da autoedición e do feito por un mesmo (DIY) do fanzine
Fanzines.
Maquetouse un fanzine para cada proxecto seleccionado no concurso (120 fanzines, 1920 páxs.). Os fanzines poden ser descargados dende a páxina do concurso como un arquivo PDF en formato A4 para despois ser impresos nunha impresora doméstica, dobrados e montados cun formato final de A5. Cada usuario pode descargar e construir os fanzines dos proxectos que lle resulten máis interesantes, creando unha colección persoal arquia/próxima 2012. Unhas instruccións de montaxe acompañan a cada pdf descargable.
Carteis e Polípticos.
Para o deseño do material de promoción e difusión do foro e do concurso deseñamos un cartel en formato A0, que dobrado, cortado e grampado construía un políptico/fanzine en formato A5. Imprimíronse tres versións diferentes de cartel segundo o método de impresión da tipografía: stencil (pochoir), plantillas de rotulación e tipografías de madeira.
Catálogo.
Seguindo a lóxica de relación entre os diferentes soportes, quixemos que o catálogo reflexase tamén a idea do fanzine. Dentro do formato xa determinado das publicacións da Fundación Caja de Arquitectos, introducimos un encarte en formato A5 para cada proxecto. En cada encarte, un código QR enlaza coa páxina do catálogo dixital (web) de arquia/próxima onde se pode consultar e ampliar a información do proxecto que aparece no propio libro, ademais de ter a posibilidade de descargar o seu fanzine específico.
Con esta estratexia, contando coas limitacións de espazo do libro e co volume de información dispoñible, o catálogo físico funciona máis como unha presentación de todos os proxectos seleccionados que despois é ampliada no catálogo dixital, onde a documentación de cada proxecto pode ser máis exhaustiva e onde é posible, ademais, incorporar outro tipo de información (videos, mapas, etc.).
Catálogo dixital.
O catálogo dixital (web) deseñouse como un respositorio de todas as obras seleccionadas (120) para que fose posible acceder á diferente información de cada proxecto (imaxes, planos, videos, mapas,…) con facilidade e de maneira áxil. Conscientemente se reduciron os elementos de interación co usuario para facer máis inmediata a navegación. A programación da web se elaborou con criterios de deseño adaptable aos diferentes dispositivos de visualización.
Trofeo.
Para recoñecer as obras premiadas, en vez de deseñar e elaborar un trofeo máis ou menos convencional, e seguindo coa lóxica de adaptabilidade de formatos entre os diferentes soportes de comunicación do premio, deseñamos unha publicación que reunía os 24 fanzines das obras candidatas. Aos autores de cada obra candidata aos premios se lle outorgou unha publicación personalizada, na que o seu fanzine foi impreso nun papel de cor amarela. O libro/trofeo funcionaba ao mesmo tempo como diploma.
Equipo de traballo
deseño.
desescribir
desenvolvemento web
estudio caravana
maquetación
Rebeca Ces e desescribir
deseño e coordinación foro
Xiao Varela (habitat social) e desescribir
redes sociais
Pablo P. Golpe (ergosfera)
fotografías foro
Luis Díaz Díaz
You can see beautiful graphic books/postcards by Katja Zwirnmann at her own atelier at Spinnerei in Leipzig.
This is the eighth book we have designed for Santiago Vitigliano of The Savi Group. A gift to his client, this book beautifully showcases the hunting lodge property based in Chestertown, Maryland. The images feature the houses, fields, and the abundant flora and fauna surrounding the property.
Coffee table book designed by Picturia Press. (www.picturiapress.com)
2007 Family Blog. 220 pages 12 x 12
We absolutely loved working with our client to create The Sarcastic Lens. This beautiful book chronicles the travels of Richard and Amy Lynn who have globetrotted around the world to experience wildlife and nature. Their book showcases 100 categories of animals they have photographed over the years along with very amusing observations on the animals, their habits and habitats. This 240+ page book reflects in often humorous detail their love of wildlife and nature.
Catalogue, guide and ticket of fair Design Miami / Basel 2009 designed by London office Madethought.
photographed by
Frank Dinger
BECOMING - office for visual communication
"Design Benign" was my senior thesis project. I studied the role of cuteness in contemporary product design, what cuteness is exactly comprised of, and how cuteness can be beneficial to design. The companion book, "Deconstructing Cute", contains the charts, sketches and notes I made during my research.
You can read excerpts from the book, as well as new material, at design-benign.blogspot.com
Nicole Peterson 2008.
Willem Sandberg
Experimenta Typografica 11
Tektovikn
Designed during World War 2
published by Galerie der Spiegel, Köln, 1957
A quick and dirty selection of pages from my first book design project. We were tasked with laying out part of The Kamasutra, consisting of the first book and three commentaries (including commentary on commentary).
A spread, featuring commentary from Yashodhara
Stillness is a collection of ambient photobooks, a year long series of experiments with ethereality, materiality and time. Eleven editions were published by FoAM on or near the new moons of 2015/2016 and a limited number of prints from each cycle were made. The final iteration is a collated selection of photographs from the series, with an introduction by Timothy Morton and epilogue by Maja Kuzmanovic, published in an edition of 300 by MER. Paper Kunsthalle and FoAM.
The book is available at the MER. webshop, or if you are further afield from Anagram Books or Perimeter