Open Arts Forum: Poetry 2019 is an anthology of poems aggregated from the online platform Open Arts Forum for Poetry. This collection was sourced algorithmically, according to social engagement: it contains those poems published in 2019 that were the most-liked and most-commented. This subtracts part of the editor’s traditional role in forming a book and instead turns that responsibility over to, first, the crowdsourced opinion of the works and second, the algorithm responsible for assessing engagement. Each poem is published together with its number of likes and comments, allowing the reader to consider not only the poem but also also the context of its social impact.

Typography is powerful enough that a whole book layout would be made out of letters.

Newspaper designed with and for Nick Thurston to support the film Tender Silences, which explores Chetham’s Library in Manchester. Chetham’s was constructed as a college for priests in 1421 and adapted into a library in 1653. It has been free to use as a public reference resource ever since. It’s the oldest public library in the English-speaking world and holds the first recorded account of silent reading. Using film, poetry and great attention to detail, Nick has beautifully captured the essence of Chetham’s, its spaces and its librarians performing their caring practices. The typeface used is Rhymes by Jakub Samek.

Book Design for Austrian eyewear brand Robert La Roche. The book is comprised of chapters detailing Robert La Roche’s brand history, team, products and design philosophy. It heavily features photography by American photographer Michael Shindler and Austrian photographers Kahriman—Paulweber.

The book was awarded with a silver European Design Award for best product catalogue.

Additional Credits
Creative Direction Client: Anthony Reid and Robert La Roche
Photography: Michael Shindler, Kahriman—Paulweber, Mattia Bello, Gerald Liebminger and Gerhard Heller
Copywriting: Sandra Lux

The Forever Book is a conceptual project, handmade as a unique edition from ten materials, each lasting an increasing amount of time, from the highly decomposable toilet paper to materials that do not decompose and will effectively will last an indeterminate amount of time—forever. There is, and should only be, 1 copy of this book. It is made with archival paper and binding materials that under storage conditions are guaranteed to last for at least 100 years, but will likely last longer. The concept and irony of the book is that some elements will last much longer than others, ensuring that the book as a whole will not last forever, but elements of it will survive prolonged decomposition.

What is man? is a dialogue between a young man and an old man regarding the nature of man. The title refers to psalm 8:4, which begins ‘what is man, that you are mindful of him…’. The text was written by J. W. Bothwell (Samuel Langhorne Clemens alias Mark Twain) in 1906. Twain never really published the book. He had 250 copies printed for private circulation only. The drawings of an US patent, issued in 1895 to ‘J. W. Paiges’ Machine for Distributing, Setting, and Justifying Type’ and an essay with the title ‘Twain, Paige and the Machine that destroyed them’ by Jim Hughes are featured alongside the philosophical text. 184 pp, 94 drawings, 100% recycled paper, edition of 250 (numbered) copies

Birthmark (mærke) is a personal processing of a time with birthmark cancer.
The book is bound in light leather, resembling light Scandinavian skin with a leather on-lay. Its a gathering of fotos, hand written thoughts, medical journals, drawings, cuts, scars.. Beauty, craft and looming death united.
Bound in 2017.

Torinodesign.info is a website listing experts in design, communication, and image operating in Piedmont, organized by field and services offered. The layout is based on old Italian address books: instead of the phone number, the designers are registered with a link to their portfolio. With a typographic-only identity the webpages weigh around 350Kb each and load in a fraction of a second, in full compliance with W3C standards. On the occasion of an exhibition in Italy, we printed a book version of the website, with the profiles registered between 2020 and 2022.

PUNCH is a photography book by Jürgen Bürgin. It’s an intimate and revealing journey into the world of boxing in New York, Berlin and Lisbon.
It’s an immersive and dark visual narrative that follows boxing fighters and clubs from the training and preparation phase to the thrill of the fight, and the moment of victory. A dramatic, evocative and emotional look into the vivid details of a classic sport, whose enormous influence on popular culture grants this work a universal and timeless appeal.

This is a book that could be read within void and is in search of its own emptiness. Whatever seen within the margin of the void becomes the content of the book. The part required to be internal to book is here completely external; what is out is invited inside the book.

“Marginal Notes. Parallel Culture of Samizdat Publishing in the Soviet Union” presents a selected history of self-publishing within the Soviet Russia, and contains a number of examples of underground publications and its designers from the past century. The production of samizdat has a certain connection to the work of graphic designers. This book is a collection of interviews, essays, and memoirs, and an attempt to explore and present the samizdat publications, techniques and distribution strategies and to build a connection to graphic design. It was released 2021 as a graduation project of University of Applied Arts in Vienna.