The project »0001—1282« questions the medium book in an experimental way and breaks up the book body as such. 1282 lines of pure text deal with the development of the moving image within (post) pop culture phenomena (explicitly: social media). In the foreground of this work is vertical video, which now dominates social media. Secondarily, the short-livedness of trends and the controlling algorithm are discussed. The body of the book is based on endless feeds in social networks and imitates endless scrolling through its length. In terms of content, emotional considerations meet objectively informative text and create an interplay that is visually reminiscent of the projection of a film strip.

Emotional Gamut recognizes and celebrates the complex interconnections of our emotional experiences and that they are not made up of emotional binaries but are much more nuanced. It presents visual analogies for the seven primary emotions, each having a palette of typography, colors, and unique shapes. The project comes together as a visual system that helps express how different emotions overlap and make our emotional experiences rich and layered using a variety of mediums. Employing the tools of graphic design to convey emotion the project turns intangible feelings into a tangible sign system.
The book is a detailed documentation of the process of developing the project.

The best architects publication «two thousand twenty one» is impressive for its absolutely minimalist approach. The cover is completely unprinted and plays with the exciting materiality of natural cardboard. Its rough structure creates an almost velvety surface with an extraordinary tactile quality.

The pure die-cutting creates an exciting overlap with the print underneath. The die-cut English title and the print of the German title behind it create an irritation that is very similar to a camouflage effect. The rough and pure appearance continues on the spine of the book. White crepe paper refines the book spine and completes the puristic design of the binding.

Fresh yellow and bright green dominate the publication «best architects 23». Only the natural, haptically appealing material and the colour determine the title of the book. The deformation of the material alone by means of a strong raised embossing gives the cover its face, and a subtle play of light and shadow is created. A minimalist approach that also permeates the details of the binding.

The lamination of two different coloured through-dyed cardboards creates a subtle play of colours at the cut edges. This play of colours is also continued inside the book by means of the typography and the binding with a yellow thread.

In white screen printing on rough natural cardboard, the number 22 is arranged in such a way that a graphic “artwork” is created on the cover of the publication. The title “22” thus combines into a striking pattern and only becomes recognisable as such at second glance. Through insertions and additions, a harmonious whole is thus created – a strategy that is also found in some of the projects in the book. The materiality and the process of making are the focus of the type of binding. With the experimental treatment of the material paper, its properties are changed in such a way that a coarse-grained but at the same time fluffy surface is created at the book’s edge.

Jaroslav Benda (1882–1970) is one of the most unique figures in the history of Czech type design. His extensive lifelong work is based on a strong and distinctive manuscript of original letterforms. Many of his works would become crucial for Czech Cubism and Art Deco. Equally important is his involvement in building the visual identity of the First Czechoslovak Republic. Unfortunately, Benda’s work fell into oblivion for many decades and a comprehensive biography of Benda has never been published. Until now. Nearly half a century after his death, we presented to the Czech public the fruit of five years of our work – Jaroslav Benda 1882–1970: Typographic designs and letterforms

The publication is centered around the problem of diacritics in type design (or more accurately, language support in Latin typefaces). Central European languages suffered for many years from incorrectly-designed accents. The book is an educational tool for dealing with accents and presents 32 different fonts with processed diacritical glyph sets.

Puritan design >> Absorbed Content << Focusing attention Form remains merely a tool and the designer actually draws attention to the content by means of the dispensability of design. The dialogue between simplicity and elegance offers the opportunity for absorption where the designer intensifies the minimalism of typography to the extreme. The homogenized typography is a metaphor, which refers to the intention of destroying diversity – to the consistent practice of the Holocaust when state power sentenced all its discriminated citizens to the same fate without exception. The absence of typographical variety symbolises the destroyed individual and the personality deprived of happiness.

The twenty photographs presented in this publication were taken during photographic explorations in Sweden, Germany and the United States, by the photographer Gerry Johansson. The cover of “At home in Sweden, Germany and America” recalls the classical covers published by the author in most of his books, but in this one there are six different stickers inside the package. These stickers represent some of the typical symbols of Sweden, Germany and America together with oval sticker of these countries. The book becomes in this way a personal souvenir, allowing an individual journey experience through the book.

Fortepan Masters is an album, which includes the most remarkable images from the collection of Fortepan, the modern Hungarian online photographic archive. Photographer Szabolcs Barakonyi who has been editing thematic selections of photographs from Fortepan’s compilation for years has selected 333 that he regards as the most exciting from the collection of more than a hundred thousand images, in such a way that the internal nature of the photographs would freely unfold. It is as if the so-far hidden heritage of a formerly unknown photographer of international standing was presented to the world – yet the author is the collective self of several hundred, mostly non-professional photographers.

Mono and its “twin”, the gta edition series, rethink academic publishing – between print and online, as open-access.

The generative design of the paperback-format is optimized for long text-formats and an innovative and efficient use of images. A further development of the Rokfor software produces the HTML view and the print template at the same time.

Awarded in the competition The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2022.

www.gta-edition.ch &
www.intercom-mono.com

Manifestos romanticize the revolution and forget the day after. This publication, edited by Andrea Sick, presents aspects of a media science at the University of the Arts Bremen by students, teachers and researchers. The performances and figurations of the 18 texts are capable of demonstrating and presenting relationships between the arts and theory for a discussion. Those manifestos play out the subjective in a conscious and sometimes carnivalesque way. All pages in the booklet are perforated and can be torn out as single posters. The publication was released by Textem Verlag, Hamburg (ISBN: 978-3-86485-190-2, 80 pages, 24 €) and was awarded with the »Förderpreis« of Stiftung Buchkunst.

The book “Giorgione. Il Fregio” it’s about Giorgione’s 16 meters fresco present in Castelfranco Veneto at the Museum Casa Giorgione.
It’s composed by three parts – each one with a different kind of paper chosen according to the contents: 
– a leporello, sheltered in a pocket placed in the inside front cover, shows for the first time the frieze in a linear reproduction that serves as guide for the main two parts of the book; 
– a photographic part related to the details of the frieze pictured in high resolution; 
– a textual part explains the meaning of the opera and presents the translations of its latin inscriptions.

Merit Badge book series inspired by Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom. Protagonist Sam Shakusky ‘took care’ of our dating book.

By Sam Dekocker & Sam Corijn

Analyzing the different aspects that describe the landscape of North East Italy and focusing on the reading of the critical factors attributable to the progressive processes of dispersion and fragmentation, typical of this area, OMNE – Osservatorio Mobile Nord Est continued the photographic campaigns entrusting to five artists in residence and three invited photographers a survey on the Venetian territory proposing a reflection on the theme “Beauty”. The volume is conceived as a box that contains, in addition to a textual apparatus with contributions from teachers and experts, eight booklets, one for each photographer, respecting a plural interpretation of the concept of beauty itself.

This is a process rather than a publishing product, which started from the question of what happens to all newspapers and magazines if they are not used for daily use or stored. Can these printed pages have a second life in editorial form? Can they become more appealing books, made to be preserved than their initial form? Book-objects, with conceptual and aesthetic-formal value. And can they in this new guise acquire and communicate new meanings, different from those for which they were created? This is an experiment.

With a lot of humour, the artist works through fundamental questions of painting. The title asserts two central themes in one word: About Painting and Overpainting; and refers to the TV show “The Joy of Painting” by Bob Ross. We transfer this esprit with rough illustrations on the endpapers, a striking use of materials and quirky text and image compositions. The wild paintings and captions are paired with a classic-looking antiqua and justified text, creating an exciting clash.
Each of the pages is perforated so that they can be torn out individually to create your own wall collage. The result is a book object that is somewhere between a swanky art catalogue and a funny saying calendar.

“It‘s All One Song” brings together architectural photographs by Italian photographer Marco Zanta taken during his travels through Europe, the USA, Asia, and Africa over the course of the last decades. In a seemingly random sequence, the images jump from continent to continent, from interior to exterior spaces, from era to era, from postmodernism to dilapidated buildings and back again to urban megalomania made out of concrete, steel, and glass. In the constantly changing rhythm of images merging subtly into one another, transnational and transcultural motifs, themes, and urban topographies are revealed on page after page. The photographs merge one by the other creating one unique stream.

We designed the catalogue for Beethoven’s anniversary exhibition, which portrays the virtuoso musician in a variety of ways, literally as new visual interpretations. Beethoven was a provocative pop star in his time, which is why we combine both classical and progressive elements in the design. The typeface “Sang Bleu” impresses with its stroke width dynamics of a transitory Antiqua. No line of text in the richly illustrated volume was printed in black. There are individual sheets of smaller format between the pages, interspersing contrasting paper qualities. Rough cover boards are applied to the book block; we had them embossed and the open spine shows the colourful chapters of his life.

The catalog collects the images that are part of the homonymous exhibition that took place at La Térmica Málaga between the end of 2021 and the first months of 2022. Days of Punk brings to light the photographs that have remained hidden for decades in archives and that Michael Grecco made while documenting the nightclub and concert scene in Boston and New York during the early days of punk rock, from 1978, also spanning the Post-Punk and New Wave periods, until 1991. The exhibitions and the book consist of more than a hundred images.

Guido Guidi and Gerry Johansson – two of the great masters of photography of our time – took part in the “Verso Nord“ photography campaign in Castelfranco Veneto in 2019. While Guidi focused his attention on the historic centre of this small town, Johansson moved around the area of urban spread, assessing through photography the cultural imagination of northeastern Italy, where architecture and nature, residential buildings and space become special witnesses of a casual landscape, one with uncertain, mysterious features. The editorial project presents the work of the two photographers in dialogue with each other: the double-sided cover allows the reader to consult it without a set beginning.

In his artistic work, Zach Blas deals with queerness, digital technology and related ideology, and is cutting edge in terms of both content and technology. We transferred these themes into the design by challenging book design and production techniques: On the one hand, we worked with a script for the typography, causing “glitch” effects through ever-changing stroke widths in display fonts, and on the other hand, we worked closely with the image editor and DZA to weave highly pigmented silver and neon colours into the visuals to get as close to digital brightness as possible.

Conceived according to a dual expressive form – exhibition and publication – a visual map represents the body of the territory but also the body of photography.
The book (composed by 20 folded sheets) allows the user to recompose the table of the exhibition with 80 pictures realized by the artists involved in the project that took place in Lecce (South Italy) in September 2021.
Founded on the idea of a collective work, thought and reassembled in a single body, the authorial dimension leads to the construction of an unprecedented universe where, in the relationship that is established between places and subjects, photography tells itself through the language and codes that belong to it.