The challenge of Allerhand (all sorts / a little bit of everything), was to create a new and attractive collection of paperback classroom books for teenagers. The collection is based on colored and perforated covers that allow intriguing inside / out dialogues, while leaving a total freedom to the designer when choosing the title character. The body text typefaces, have a contemporary aspect, great readability, but also specific aspects related to dyslexia. The low-weight, bulky (2.0) paper and soft cover make the book lightweight for schoolbags.

Reflecting on and researching the topic of why people keep notebooks, I came across the work Meditations by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. On 48 pages I explore the 12 books of Aurelius chronologically and reinterpret his quotes calligraphically. The texts are accompanied by cut-outs. The calligraphy cut out with a scalpel, undergoes a double process of creation. Turning the cut-out reveals an abstracted version of the text that was not visible before. Aurelius’ theses about one’s place in the world and the teachings of Stoicism are more relevant than ever in times of crises and media overstimulation. Perhaps we should all try to pause more and put our daily thoughts on paper?

The book relates the entire Solvay project by artist Denis Meyers, from the initial sketchbooks to the complete destruction of the site. It is organized in twelve sections, marked by different photographic approaches, print techniques and paper choices. Every copy of the book is unique, as it contains 10 manual inserts + an original. The raw cardboard cover is manually taped and has to be cut or teared off. A limited handmade boxed edition contains original elements from the destroyed building, art fragments, some of the artist’s work tools and the cover is hand painted.

Teapot partnered with Tereza Hradilkova a/k/a Porigami to environmentaly reinterpret the classical dystopian work Absolute at Large by Karel Capek.

The book presenting the reconstruction and new buildings of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, the architectural plans. It was made with experimental binding.

This work is the final assignment of the course Fundamentals in more-than-human Design. I made this graphical manifestation to present my understanding of the concept: that is to question what is human and what kind of human we want to be. The title “Modern Human” contains a pinch of silly humor with a similar sound to MTH, while representing a contemporary timeline. The visual is made into two pages, with one side questioning the individual, and the other side questioning the human community. Humans here are connected by human chromosomes placed upon a petri dish with a geo map made of microbes. “SamenLeving” – “Society” in Dutch then weaves human, society into the geo-bacterial ecology.

„Jamming“ is an imaginary trip to the motorways of 90s europe. The book draws inspiration from several journeys to the south – sitting in the back seat – while being stuck. The picture stories take place between stopped cars on the lane, on side stripes or at rest stops. Besides the most obvious topic in a book about traffic jams – the passing of time – the book contains various picture stories and short comics that show humorous events, taking place „on the road“. The book was released by the Lissabon based publisher Stolen Books in 2021.

The book shows the development of Moritz’s fabric collection from 1992-2007 with photographs by Rudolf Schmutz. To reflect the high quality, we used different types of paper for full-color printing. For example, to enhance the impact of the designs, we used Hello Silk with an additional transparent pearlescent coating. To highlight a particular section of the book, we used Lessebo Smooth. Various other pages scattered throughout the book were printed on Translucent paper. The 184-page book is bound in an uncoated black hardcover with a text image embossed with a reflective iridescent foil. A transparent, full-color printed cover comes into play with the embossed foil on the hardcover.

The Building Views series aims to provide a technical and cultural overview of the architecture of apertures and the history of glass door windows.This series’ initial number is dedicated to Alvar Aalto. It’s graphic approach pursues those dichotomies as well, not only through layout, but also through format, textures, and visual and tactile experience. The window as a means to look at a subject from different angles is the cover’s motto, implying that each view has its own nuances.

To commemorate Moritz’s 15th collection for Marburg Wallcoverings, we were asked to design a book in collaboration with Ulf Moritz himself. Besides a regular edition we also created a limited jubilee edition. Both editions contain multiple types of paper. All full-page imagery is printed with a transparent lac. The images are printed on matt varnished paper and finished with a partial gloss spot varnish. The 124-page square core in both editions has a Singer-sewn binding. The softcover around that core comes with a jacket with high-profile, embossed flowers. The typography on the jacket and the cover is a glossy-black foil gravure.

Most things that are commonly described with good, beautiful and touching are not formally perfect. The book studies the topics of photography, painting, architecture, sound and – a personal one – stutter, to develop a book-layout-concept based on imperfection. In the book, those imperfections are referred to as “Rauschen” (grain). The layout shall not only inform the viewer/reader but rather move them, too.

The authors own imperfection – a stutter – motivated him to explore this topic. After many years of therapy the question comes up if “perfect speech” should be the goal or if there is more potential in not striving for perfection but for authenticity.

To mark its 125th anniversary, Vorwerk asked Ulf Moritz to design a commemorative book. Moritz approached us to collaborate with him in doing so.
In designing the commemorative jubilee book ‘Zeit/Time Raum/Space’ we were given the freedom to play with the theme. We chose to use different paper for each of the 9 chapters. In combination with special printing techniques like high-gloss spot UV and braille embossing.
For the front of the cover we had a special lenticular foil made on which we printed the design that Tord Boontje made especially for Vorwerk’s 125th anniversary. The book is printed by robstolk® (Amsterdam)

The book presents a collection of 100 drawings by Bas Kosters about Michael Jackson, gathered as a stack and featuring a Helvetica-bound hardcover.

By using the letters as punched-out shapes that reveal an associative and atmospheric illustration, we play with the meaning of the title.

Ana Resende is a Porto-based designer focused on book design, combining this practise with her other interests such as architecture, cinema, and curatorial projects. Having been working independently for more than ten years, she values collaborative approaches as a way to constantly learn and enhance the possibilities of each project.

The use of the scanner to disrupt the title’s typography matches the atmospheric content and places it in the 1980’s.

To commemorate the very last edition of Rauw – the popular underground club night that DJ Joost van Bellen organised in Amsterdam and Utrecht from 2003 to 2016 – we designed a book compiling 13 years of publicity material, images of specific club-night events and visual contributions by fans. In doing so, we worked closely together with Britta Möller and Alex Maslow of Mary Go Wild. The 320-page commemorative book is printed in black and white on Munken Pure Rough (novel-print) paper and bound in a softcover of Invercote G, 300 GSM paper. All the images are presented in high-contrast black and white.

LĪMEN is a 30-minute performance in which the threshold as a creative starting point is examined digitally, spatially and across disciplines, and in which the tools of the graphic work environment enter into an action-determining dialogue with each other.

The performance was preserved as a stage script in which the threshold breaks the book space into two parts and makes visible and reflects the countless (in-between) spaces and roles in which designers move.

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.