This monograph of painter Tomáš Predka is the first synoptic review of his work. It uses foam boards instead of card boards on the cover with transparent PVC foil jacket. Open binding spines are fragments of Predka’s paintings. Predka views the painting not as a two-dimensional surface limited by the boundaries of the stretcher frame, but rather as a stand-alone object that can be developed on several levels.

A journey through time with satellite images from Google Earth back to December 2010. The book takes you through the construction of the eight stadiums built for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar and presents an unusual perspective. Humans Behind Stadiums is dedicated to all those who had to work under inhumane conditions for the World Cup 22 and died by hundreds or even thousands as a result.
Facts about the construction and quotes from the construction workers are written on transparent layers wrapped around each chapter. They hold the book as one with a thread binding and pick up the earthy colours of Qatar’s dusty soil.

Daniel Roeckl is a traveller. “Beneath the surface” is collecting architecture and portrait shots he took in the last 15 years visiting Armenia, China, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Russia and more. In every city he visits, he is turning his gaze rather to the “final stations” than the “high streets”. For this book, he composed his images into a personal sequence. In several sessions, Schwarz and Roeckl refined this rythm and set the images into a pure layout.

The chapters of the book follow 12 emotions: Calmness, Serenity, Joy, Easiness, Cockiness, Scepticism, Confusion, Depression, Anger, Courage, Force and Confidence.

Mudrābox(e) is poetry book by artist and curator Daniela Allocca published by independent art publisher Il Laboratorio Nola, under the aegis of master printmaker Vittorio Avella who runs the publishing house since 1978. It comes as the output of a collaborative work with Daniela Allocca in which I have been proposing, discussing, modifying design ideas, from the layout to the layering of illustration and photographs. I also have worked on the digital lab of Angela Sodano’s photographs, developing raws and retouching images. The box containing the unbound sheets is hand made and the title is screen printed, making this poetry book a precious and hand crafted object.

“Right here, another entrance opens up, a grotto that leads to Oktopia,” writes Matthias Wittmann. Inspired by this, i created the arched illustrations that serve as a kind of window, allowing readers to enter Oktopia – the world of the octopus. This parallel world, so different from our own, is represented by a contrast of light and dark pages and the mirrored page numbers. There are also 8 different layout variations, depending on the function of each page and based on the 8 individual tentacles of the octopus. Combinations of these pages create a varied layout, resembling the high flexibility of the octopus. The varying text indents are an allusion to the sea, which is always in motion.

Florian Lechner plays with space in all its aspects: wideness and narrowness, gravity and volatility, analog and digital, just to name a few. In his installations and wall objects he changes how the spectator perceives a space and creates new spaces, even impossible ones.

One of Lecher‘s series is entitled „dimensional sketches” as they appear like an unfolded drawing placed in a room. They convey the impression, that they are not physical but virtual objects. The Layout of Lechners „Eins“ echoes this impression by weaving together the catalog texts to a tapestry. -showcasing Lechner’s notorious use of lowercase Helvetica – that transmits Lechners sculptures once more into spatiality.

IF AI, THEN FEMINIST follows a design concept, that connects weaving and coding and raises questions about the representation of women in the domain of AI. Weaving machines were the basis for creating the first computers using the machine’s binary pattern system. Although weaving is an inherently female connoted craft we find ourselves in a male dominated field when it comes to coding today. For the main typeface we chose Arthemys Bitmap by type designer Morgane Van Torre, which is a variation of her typeface Arthemys, aimed to embroider typefaces into woven fabrics by her mother.

Conceived as a monographic reader, VIKA KIRCHENBAUER: WORKS, SCRIPTS, ESSAYS 2012–2022 compiles for the first time an extensive, decade-spanning collection of Kirchenbauer’s seminal and profoundly perceptive essays, the scripts of her widely celebrated moving image works in conjunction with selected video stills, as well as exhibition views. This volume offers substantial insights into the Berlin-based artist, filmmaker, writer and music producer’s research inquiries and aesthetic vocabulary.

For Markus Lutter, life is a stage and his art gives him the chance to slip into different roles: Driven by his own curiosity, he’s connecting a drill to an office chair in his performance “Couple Dance”. In “Bronze Theater” he’s setting in scene the ancient artisan tradition of bronze casting. For “Backdrop” he’s has built a crooked and quickly painted facade of a house in the garden of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. The Catalogue is picking up the design of a theater guide. Moreover it contains reviews by cultural critic Christiane Lutz of the reknowned german newspaper “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, who was given the assignment to comment on Lutter‘s art as if they were theater plays.

WICKED LITTLE TOWN gathers more than fifty artists and critical thinkers traversing trans-temporal imaginations of resistance, unruliness, and non-compliance across genders, abilities and national borders. Highlighting companionship, alliances, and bonds, this publication tunes to critiques of normativity and dialogues around the interdependency between intersectional oppressions and collective paths of liberation. Wicked Little Town is comprised of multiple formats, such as essays, poems, letters, historical documents, transcripts of time-based artistic works, and a theater play, as well as visual contributions.

The Art of sculptor Ecker is the result of an exploratory curiousness, in which he examines natural phenomena with scrupulous precision and the experimental set-ups of a scientist.

His artworks do not represent this explorative movement but its result, once Ecker feels it as being finished. Thereby the traces of its experimental undergoings are of varying recognizability. However, they belong to the artwork no less than the visual impression we get.

The Book structures Florian Ecker‘s work in the form of a scientific journal into research, experimentation and results and is thereby reflecting the creative process of the artist.

“Wzór” (“The Pattern”) novel by Polish writer Marcin Bałczewski with a cruel story from World War II: here a ship full of prisoners moored near Police, becomes an arena of dramatic and macabre events in the original struggle for survival. There are also postmodern, grotesque, and absurd elements characteristic of the author, but the whole thing is deadly serious! Terror, death and absurdity.

Cover, layout, illustrations (photocollages, digital 3d illustrations), typesetting — Victor Soma
Publisher: Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy
Polskich in Łódź, PL
Publication date: March 2022
Number of pages: 234
Number of illustrations: 28
Types: Playfair Display, Termina

Nachglühen is a project on architectural memories, which gathers and unites historic architectural research and the stories of our grandmothers, omas, nonnas and their homes. This riso printed publication references the passing of time through the fragility and softness of its material and the transparency of the pages. The contributions overlap and shine through, creating new visual connections.

This work explores whether the use of artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool in the arts is useful for blind people. The study looks at whether AI can help visually express blind people and whether it is possible to make the generated images perceivable by them. The research involves providing blind people with an AI that can generate images from text input and interviewing them to understand their needs. The generated images are then interpreted as sculptures that can be touched by the blind artists. The feedback from the blind artists is documented both visually and in writing.

The Catalog of Futures is a book that asks the question about future in graphic design. How does design produce futures and how can we design in terms of openness? If design is understood as a process of hierarchization and decision-making, its political dimension and impact on the body and the environment cannot be denied.
The metaphor of the catalog, as well as the plural form of the title, point to a polyphony. The book conceives a space of possibility that discusses, negotiates, and unifies many different possible futures. Therefore six different thematic areas are discussed. Each chapter also editorially interrogates the design for a particular aspect of future production.

This is a catalog of student projects from the Faculty of Architecture in Prague, led by architect Jan Šépka, in cooperation with city representatives from 8 cities in the Czech Republic. Every city is in the book design (and particularly on the book spine) represented with an unique graphical pattern, which is inspired or based on each city’s flag or traditional heraldic symbols color scheme.

This the first publication, which focuses on the work of architect Jan Šépka, is based on a detailed presentation of his selected projects and realizations on 700 pages. The title of the book Inspirace (Inspiration) is derived from the author´s process of the genesis of specific topics, which was materialized in the concept of individual architectural assignments and translated into a book design concept, where every presented project starts with an inspiration on the transparent paper in contrast with first idea sketches or final design.

Flashforward is a speculative publication on the Metaverse designed by Eleonora Capodiferro, Melania Ilari and Valerio Stancati.
A glossary that comes from the future: each letter of the alphabet explores a part of reality in an imaginary cyber-world. Objects, shapes and concepts have been pushed beyond the edge of the digital, shifting their semiotic meaning in a dystopian and irreverent interpretation. Inside you’re going to find the avatar’s language in the form of a typeface, avatar’s food, a map of the metaverse and so on. This project is conceived as an open project: the first 26 contents (from A to Z) of the encyclopedia are here, but it can be expanded over time by other designers.

A book, written and designed by Alix Stria, as a result, or maybe a stepping stone, of an experimental writing practice. It revolves around the intuitive, the unknown and the non-permanent, blurring the lines between writing and reading, thought and material, body and identity. Including poetry, short texts, a script and an essay that reveals the author’s obsession with text and typographic details, while investigating the space between the words and their complicity to the creation of meaning in language. The pages of the small book are offset printed in a dark blue color, while the cover is screen printed with an intense blue on a soft cover made of white smooth fake leather.

This book was created as a proposal for the first half of this year and is, in its nature, completely speculative.
Its main focus is mobility, studying how, in the last centuries, the urbanism of the city of Póvoa de Varzim has been developing, imposing questions such as “Is the city adapting to the people or the people adapting to the city?” on a joint base of maps and blueprints accessed from the city archive and photographs of my authorship.
This concrete theme is even more noticeable when we see the different typographic styles combined with the pictorial elements mentioned above, thus unifying the object.

The book “Philosopical Diary” by Constantin Noica is a collection of thoughts about school: how it should function and what it should teach. For this reason, the book took shape of a notebook (look at format, book size and rounded corners). On the cover there are two paths describing the way of searching for knowledge: one straight and simple, the other forming a question mark. Type size is realtively large and corresponding to school textbooks. The inside margin is very wide. This is a place not only for a page number, but also for the reader’s notes. It is a notebook on which you can write and add your own mark to its pure form.

Using diagramming as a graphic communication tool to generate stories through the analysis of photographs captured in my urban surroundings. Walking, observing, analysing, making stories. (Series of 6 booklets.)

Exploring the diagrammatic language and its use, with emphasis on its potential to form narratives while investigating the brain and how thoughts are developing. A visual study on diagram elements as facts versus interpretation, clarity versus ambiguity, and subjectivity versus objectivity. A journey through shapes, lines and arrows.

A Brainful of Diagrams takes the form of an artist’s book, cataloging a series of experiments that record my own perception and ideas around the topic. A collection of printed media that challenges the reader to interact with; observe, analyse, think, and shape their own interpretations.