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.

“Thinking about water, is thinking about the future.” (Roni Horn)
Kunsthalle Bielefeld compiled a sparkling show around the vast topic water. We designed a sustainable publication for it, in which the texts flow through the book like waterfalls—decreasing the type size line by line per page. Different shades of blue serve as artwork’s backdrops and text color throughout the book. Blue back paper became the running material motif, which meanders through the catalogue together with the main text. Our chosen typeface was „New Edge“, which fits the topic perfectly, since it appears to collect fluids in its reversed ink drops.

A book about the Extravaganza exhibition curated by Antonia Gaeta that took place at Oliva Art Center. This exhibition showcases the work of classical outsiders artist, characterised by obsession, absurdity, incongruity and all kinds other of paradoxes. The book cover aims to reflect this strangeness and the refusal of logical rules. The text was as big as possible, resulting in fragmentation of the word/exhibition title is into the 8 pages that are part book cover. Inside pages show the work of artist like Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Agatha Wojciechowsky, Mose Tolliver, Marilena Pelosi and Derrick Alexis Coard mainly true to the exhibitions views.

Windows: JC + JCD functions both as an autonomous book and also as part of an installation created by the scenographer José Capela. To be presented at the Official Portuguese Representation in Prague Quadrennial / PQ19, dedicated to Performance Design and Space.

The scenography was composed of a set of mirrored containers that act as a piece of landscape, reflecting the surrounding scenery. The book design followed the same approach, being the cover and edges entirely mirrored. Our design wanted to enhance the mirror surface and meaning that we achieved true the fold of the title from the cover to the spine.

The book content has photographs by José Carlos Duarte showcasing José Capela’s

Irradiation 33 arises from the interest of Miguel Ângelo Martins to work with the Porta33 archive. This artwork reflects the importance of the archive as a site that disseminates information and knowledge for the community of Madeira Island.
For one month the artist compiled printed material from the archive, which resulted in a personal selection of 35 items. The dialogue that he has established through the juxtaposition and superposition of this material can be seen on the bookshop table and seeks to establish possible links with the island that build bridges between the text and the image, that which is far and near, outside and inside, public and private.

Design of the book and graphics for the exhibition Cabeza de Lobo by Blanca Gracia. The show, curated by Pilar Soler Montes, has a space that is divided into three environments: a phantasmagoria of a city that lurks like a nightmare, a magical and irrational forest where everything is possible, and a fantastic carnival of characters that claim, between joy and fear, other ways of being.

OMNE/WORK 2016–2018 showcases the results of the first artistic residence organized by OMNE – Osservatorio Mobile Nord Est; ten projects, ten visions, between memory and contemporaneity, show the complexity of the landscape of the North-East of Italy through a common theme of analysis: “work”.
The editorial project is inspired by the theme of investigation and translates it into an object that wants to remember the typical archival collector. Inside, different page formats and types of paper indicate the passage from critical texts, to teachers’ contributions, up to the projects of international artists, presented in the form of rubricated files.

Artefakt explores how human-made traces can be visually fragmented using modern tools. The process involves framing an artifact to capture its original appearance, then breaking it down and analyzing it through five experiments. Ultimately, the fragments are reassembled into a new visual expression, using unconventional techniques to process the original trace. The goal is to create something new and innovative by investigating the remnants of human activity.

From high-end to low-res, from artificial intelligence to digital trash, from post-photographic conditions to technosphere, from screenmemories and faithbooks, from the intrinsic self and posthumanism, from undead photography and photogrammetry, from media-reflexive social criticism and self-therapy, from Google hacks and digital détournements.
noPublication is an experimental publication by the international artist group darktaxa-project, which artistically and theoretically works at the interface of photography and post-photography using the new digital imaging processes such as photogrammetry, augmented reality, 3D scanning, AI, etc..The publication is largely designed life per zoom.

Spindrift is an annual art and literary review. The 2022 volume is a rejection of isolation, so it features four different covers that combine to form a larger interconnected image, using either the front or back covers. The inside covers reverse the exterior images, adding further dimension. The spines also connect. The cover illustration, by Anna Ramsey, flips, slices, and extends the well-known print by Hokusai, expanding our world. Just waves waving.

This book by Angelika Maria Schnell is about traditional dishes from a village in the mountains of South Tyrol: Altrei. There are old recipes, rituals and cremes – provided with dialectal sayings.

In the design we have placed great emphasis on the font choices. We used Wayfinder CF by Connary Fagen for the titles and Maiola by TypeTogether for the basic text and ingredients. With Wayfinder, we found it especially exciting to use all the great ligatures and beautiful glyphs.

The book was published by Effekt Verlag.

The incredible and timeless text by Italian writer Italo Calvino fascinated me for many years. I finally got to make a tiny book, exploring three concepts: colour, AI and light to try and capture some of the meaning and expression of the book. Nine chapters with eleven themes in five variations asked for a structure to be envisioned and visualised. The names of the cities, women’s names, play a central role in my approach. The colours referencing the city types are taken from the chapter openers. This is just a prototype.

The d.school Yearbook is an annual publication that celebrates the school year’s activities and events. Overlapping joyful colors represent the intersections of a lot of different people (educators, students, and community) with different ideas coming together. Paired with bold typography and a vibrant color palette, the publication captures the school’s innovative methods. Each of the book’s three sections is color-coded for easy navigation.” 164 pages, 8 × 10.5, 4-color, perfect bound.

Designed by 908A (E Roon Kang and Andrew LeClair), published by Draw Down Books (C and K Sleboda). This book is built on a set of interconnected technologies: 302 Markdown files, 9 CSV data files, 10 HTML templates, and 989 lines of CSS. It was generated from a command line in 90 seconds on April 13, 2022 at 11:41am. Framework 101 features work from the Communications Design community at Parsons in NYC, along with texts from visiting designers and a typographic showcase. Cover features contributor names, interspersed with reflective foil that allows a reader to see themselves as part of the community. 296 p., offset, 6.6 × 9.5 in.

The text in this book is written in response to the images, subverting traditional methods of composition and illustration. We invited 50 people to respond to the prompt, Is the Internet Down? They had a week to respond with new work or something already created. We analyzed responses and placed them into themed groups, then drafted essays that contextualized the works.

The book weaves together pop culture references and statistical facts about the greatest network of our time, playfully examining the history of the Internet, with nods to world domination; the physical and emotional cost to humans; network fragility; and more.

Presents 50 posters produced by Draw Down Books, designed by K. and C. Sleboda, for art book fairs, workshops, and lectures between 2013 and 2021, accompanied by reflections and essays by graphic designers that provide context and insights, providing readers with new ways of considering their own poster-making and event documentation. Swiss binding, with neon green thread (lies flat). Offset printed, all text printed in Reflex Blue. Neon orange Pantone (selected by crowd-sourcing via Instagram) used for cover; use on interior cover creates warm inner glow. 160 pages, 5 x 7.5 inches.

As a passionate collector of books, magazines and ephemera, as a frequent visitor of exhibitions and (independent) book fairs, and last but not least as a publication designer, I have gathered a massive amount of paper, bound and unbound, piled, organised, stacked and stored in boxes, on shelves, tables and on the floor. What can one make with all this? The publication explores the material in different sections.
The chapters Shelved and Unboxed look at publications that we bought, traded or received as gifts. The chapters Explored, Detailed and Opened look at publications that I sometimes conceived and always designed. Texts on archives and books complete the experience.

The work “Leafless trees in a square of earth” contains a collection of different structures of the ground. They have been copied with a frotage technique in combination with texts that have been written with a type writer. All those elements have been printed out with a riso printer and binded with a spiral. The cover has been made with a very old letter press. You can see the imprint on on the first page after the cover. In this work, the haptical and handmade component is very important. The ground has been copied with hands and letters have been produced with the usage of old machines.

This self initiated magazine is an ode to the different, the bad taste and the will of revendication of the anti design aesthetic. Unique visuals that requestions the rules of graphic design become as important as the content.