Exit prize is the prize for young artists on czech and slovak art universities. As we designers have seen art practice ain’t easy practice at all, it’s hard job, we’ve chosen the thermochromatic view on a galery space as the catalogue topic. As we use tre thermochromatic camera data, we need to extend the color gamut of the printed catalogue a bit. Therefore we swapped the 4 cmyk colors to 4 only fluorescent colors in offset printing process. Acording to that decision we mede serrious extra problems to the printers and unexpected result for us and the client. Result: new colors were found, nobody harmed, catalogue succesfully finished.

Civette and combinatorial literature in the headlines of local newspapers.
The “civetta” that the newsagent displays every day in front of his newsstand, that is, the poster with the (hilarious) summary of the most important headlines of the newspaper, is the object of investigation of “ABC 18688 e altre”, a catalogue and a dictionary, a combinatorial game of words and expressions to produce amusing “owls” ad infinitum. A system from the Oulipo group, the potential literature workshop of Queneau, Perec and Calvino. 18688 is the fruit value of the computer code.

With Sugarcoat Giulia Heuser and Johanna Geyer created a manifest of the New Romanticism, featuring a diverse range of visual and literary content centered around the theme of romanticizing. Combining extravagant fonts and colors, the topic is playfully visualized in 6 themed chapters. No two of the over 300 pages are alike, the visual abundance is disrupted by dreamy cloud photographs. With interactive elements such as glasses that make you see hearts, or illustrations and typography that come to life using the Moiré effect, Sugarcoat is more than a book. It becomes a playful experience, breaking the boundaries of traditional book design and reviving fantasy and creativity.

This book was made as an object using different types of materials – transparent foil, pachica, coloured paper with neone color silkscreen prints. We have printed it a week ago and there was not much time to make product photos – that we can deliver if needed – if you will choose to present our work. Book is an collaboration between me as an author and photographer Alžběta Jungrová. Main idea behind the selection is a story of Alice in wonderland – different types of images in strange combinations. Finally Iam sorry for the quality of presentation – that we can fix easily. all best, Adam.

A 1000+ page book examines a fixed set of the 178 Pantone process colour range. Two tones from opposite ends of the spectrum are confronted and detailed in their technical composition. The book in it’s strict structure offers two entrance points, accidental colour combinations, and can be flipped through for a continuously changing colour journey.

Fortepan Masters is a experimental photographic album, which includes the most remarkable images from the collection of Fortepan, the most significant modern Hungarian online photographic archive. This selection highlights the poetry in the pictures, their artistic value, the “fine art” so far hidden in this enormous archive. His principle of selection did not involve enforcing historical or thematic viewpoints, but finding outstanding photographs excelling in their beauty, purity, aesthetic significance, and sorting them without any thematic obligation.

The publication brings together nine contemporary positions, each of which refers in its own way to aspects of Joseph Beuys’ extended concept of art. With little money, a magazine was to be created that conveys the processual and interactive nature of this artistic concept. Only a selection of the works has been printed in full color on illustration paper. The greater part of the illustrations, as well as all the text, is printed in a dark green color on an uncoated and wood-containing paper. The ephemeral nature of the paper and the green, reminiscent of school blackboards, relate to Beuys‘ materials and practices, as does the intuitive and sketchy yet scientifically composed layout.

Starting point of the design process was Borries’ concept, that good design shouldn’t be subjugating, but projective. So, we questioned the traditional way theory books are designed, since this traditional form of design implies a certain unalterability.
We wondered: what if the design could be fluid, dynamic, porous and open, so that it implies the skill of the unfinished, or rather the imperfect. This way, the reader could be stimulated, to understand Borries’ theory as a work in progress.
Our approach was to find a form, which moves somewhere between a work of theory and a college note book. It should communicate seriousness as well as playfulness, and the idea of a conceptual draft.

How can the political, activist and interventionist dimension of design be adequately conveyed graphically? Neutrality would contradict the missionary aspect of activism. So would timelessness or static monumentality. Attention, accessibility, dynamism and transience were ultimately core concepts in our thinking.The form of the magazine seemed appropriate for this. At the same time, we had to achieve a balance of value and modesty, since the magazine was not intended to be a vogue or a fanzine. A high-quality produced magazine, but 90% in B/W, seemed to be the right mixture of seduction and refusal, desire and asceticism, irony and seriousness.

The book was planned as an affectioned new edition of Gottfried Benn’s first poetry book, that was published in 1912. We wanted to refer as much, as possible to the first edition, using the same format, the (almost) same blackletter typeface, the same sequence of poems and a comparable typographic concept. Applying a slightly bolder typographic concept and adding early drawings of the reknown painter Georg Baselitz, we wanted to give the publication a contemporary twist, showing the topicality of Benn’s oevre.

In a file, an opaque cover and loose pages were used. The appearance of the cover may vary.

The author tells the most interesting stories about the flags of all countries of the world. We were working on the cover and we had a question: how to demonstrate the topic of flags in a way that does not turn around former colonial centers, and, on the other hand, not to exploit the “exoticism” of former colonies or simply distant countries?

After several brainstorming sessions with the entire design team, we went through a dozen viable concepts. But in the end, we settled on the most neutral tone, and subtle at the same time. The very title of the book, setted in a “discreet” font, has already become a flag. However, we had to rewrite the title a bit, and add a single straight line.

A series of books created by manipulating the movement of paper in an offset printing machine, transforming it into a new printing tool – challenging the function of a printer as a tool for reproducing design. The whole process illustrates a situation somewhere between hacking and control when most of the time the machine exerts control over me.

Print on demand has revolutionized the world of books. Digital printing and low-threshold online platforms like Blurb, Lulu, and Kindle Direct Publishing allow anyone to publish work immediately across the globe without financial investment or risk. This opens up space beyond the traditional book market and gives rise to an entire new subculture. The Library of Artistic Print on Demand maps this experimental field of post-digital book culture, continuing avant-garde, underground, and counterculture, and compelling us to rethink books and publishing. The Library contains almost 300 POD publications, which are available online in a web archive and in print in the Bavarian State Library Munich.

Brochure conceptual design in grayscale.

The experience of the city that never sleeps. From the buzzing street level to the top of the One World Tower are juxtaposed in an endless loop. Accident and chance effect the material and underline the roughness and social mesh of the epic metropolis. The lyrics of U2’s song New York accompany the image sequence.

Book cover conceptual design – collage.

An conceptual work that highlights the artist’s work while offering a playful and original approach. The concept of a “cabinet of curiosities” evokes the idea of bringing together heterogeneous and unusual objects, while the notion of a collection refers to the idea of an orderly accumulation of similar elements. As for the inventory, it suggests the idea of a detailed and exhaustive list of elements. A general overview of each page, in a cross-like fashion, highlights an idea of the passage of time.

The rough, documentary photography forms the core of the book and is framed at the beginning and the end by pure, royal blue text. This contrast between rough and noble, traditional and bold, is also evident in the finish with mother-of-pearl foil on industrial cardboard, while the inside covers are covered with linen, thus reversing the classic book binding.

The Hungarian University of Fine Arts aimed to create an album providing a representative picture of its art collection. The hidden message on the edge of the pages forms a line-system representing the main and sub-categories of the works. Connecting the lines creates a coherent pattern which can be seen on the back of the book too. There is another pattern found on the top and edge of the book which reflects the collection itself therefore the book itself becomes the visualisation of a complex and protracted system. The clean coverage reminds us of the white walls of a gallery making sure the focus remains on the works presented in the book.

Book 1: I-CCXXX showcases a selection of 230 text-based works by the artist Goran Trbuljak — simple one-line sentences typed on a typewriter on A4 sheets of paper, originally written between the 1970s and 1980s. The book format follows the original A4 size, and the minimalistic design approach relates to the artists` unartistic idea of a work which is almost invisible but also very conceptual and strong.

The book Between Mobility Control and Social Transformation, published by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, is the epilogue of a four-year art-interdisciplinary project Risk Change with a focus on migration. The book is conceived as a reader in which the first part brings texts from the field of anthropology, social psychology and curatorial practices that explore the themes of mobility in the 21st century. The second part provides an overview of exhibitions and a gallery of artworks, while the third part contains translations of texts in Croatian. The dynamics of different content is further emphasized in its performance through design, custom illustrations and paper type changes.

The three-volume catalogue narrates a hypothetical selection of books competing in the “Books & Others Prize” exhibition at ICA Milano The collection offers different points of view through which to observe each book under analysis, which, as the narrative proceeds, becomes a tool for deciphering the next one in a continuous comparison based on a game of distances. The book and poster dimensions coexist to create alternative reading layers.

2022 ISIA Urbino
graphical design by
Matteo Mariangioli, Aurora Pelaggi