Crying is a uniquely human behavior that has always been a mystery, and society has considered crying shameful, causing people, especially men, to suppress it.

On the other hand, seemingly unrelated, embroidery is an artistic technique that has historically been deemed inferior to its counterparts. Practiced mostly by women, it has always remained in the domestic sphere.

This book is the collection of the research conducted on these topics. Through the binding, the book weaves these two subjects into one. The reader can choose to read the book in any order but, as the topics get interconnected, the pages of the two books communicate with each other until a simultaneous reading is needed.

SKIP AD is the first artist’s book by the graphic designer Gjorgji Despodov. Despodov creates a playful artistic method called the “Session for self-discovery,” an integral part of the more comprehensive SKIP AD project. Through this method, critically oriented towards mass consumerism, Despodov opens the possibility for an alliance between the graphic designer and us, the users.The project is sponsored by the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development.This book is published by PrivatePrint Year: 2021Dimensions: 21х14,8 cmPages: 152 Language: English
Printed on Fedrigoni Arcoset paper with FSC certification. Editor: Ilija Prokopiev
Assistant editor: Marija Hristova

Kristel ter Beek is a Dutch photographer. In her photos you’ll never see people. This publication is based on the work method of Ter beek: showing more that the eye sees at first glance. All photographs taken by Ter Beek in this series are in the book, but also the ones she didn’t shot. When one takes a second look, hidden texts and boxes appear. This bold publication was made by printing ton-sur-ton: white ink on white paper (190gr. Condat Matt). The white ink is printed in 4 runs and becomes visible when the book is slightly tilted and moved. The cover is printed with white ink only and the Curious Matter (380gr. Goya White) paper gives the book a rough, concrete feel.

The book Beyond Matter offers a survey of all the photographs, drawings, installations, sculptures and videos by artist Levi van Veluw. This extraordinary book is an artwork in itself. Through the use of white space, symmetry and harmony—often utilised to depict the pursuit of divine perfection—in combination with a bespoke typeface, materials (both choice of paper and binding) and tactility, the book imitates a sacral experience: each book cover contains a unique handmade sculpture, the book ends at the beginning and dissevered typography makes the book larger than the book itself. Also a special edition slide-in case is made entirely by hand. A true object of veneration.

Time Flows is a handmade book that documents my inner thoughts and struggles for my first four years of design practice after graduation, for my parents, for their long-suffering.
It is not necessary about going to a certain place or arriving at a certain goal in life, the most important thing is about what you learn along the way in that journey, destination may not be important. Life will make its turns and you just have to learn to go with the flow and learn how to be ready for that, stay curious and the life force inside

The act of glossing can conceal, reveal, expound, destabilize, obscure, and divert attention from a main text. Glosses is a book composed of letters written by sixteen anonymous collaborators. These are printed in blue ink and arranged as a continuous stream of correspondence. My commentary, printed in metallic gold, contains notes on social media and human interaction. Gold ink was chosen for its historical connections with illuminated manuscripts and marginalia. Here, the two texts intertwine and eventually the annotation becomes the main text. Glosses exposes the viewer to various human emotions in the form of letters and also provokes questions regarding the nature of our correspondence.

This publication carries forward research undertaken during a series of solitary and collaborative walks as part of ‘The Drive of Walking’ masterclass (2016) at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Netherlands. Self-reflective and experimental in its approach, it is a collection of notes, impressions and reflections on/during these walks. This is followed by visual scores depicting a soundscape exercise carried out by a group of participants. They can be described as experimental graphic scores to the city of Maastricht reflecting the time and place of another, some of which may never be heard again.

My book “Do not disturb my circles” (Orig. Man störe mir meine Kreise nicht) retells the history of mathematical sciences in a more entertaining way than usually seen in specialist literature or popular science. In 10 chapters referring to important mathematical milestones and 15 fictional short stories featuring remarkable mathematicians the history of Mathematics unfolds in all its fascination. I researched and wrote the texts myself. My collage illustrations support the content in a more playful way whereas scientific graphics help to understand complex matters. The grid is based on principles of the Golden Ratio. The book cover and packaging was screen printed on Gmund paper.

“Re: Re: is a project in which the two graphic designers Yunus Ak and Umut Altıntaş send each other letters using their typographic vocabulary, text, word, and writing that becomes completely abstract, marked, complicated, simplified, and meaningless.

> https://umutaltintas.net/RE-RE-1
> https://umutaltintas.net/RE-RE-1

Horizonte is an annual publication within an initiative of the Faculty of Urbanism and Architecture at Bauhaus University Weimar. The 14th issue was designed by Handina Murandu and Josephine Schröder. 500 copies, 320 pages. The subject is manifestations. Hence, the design is based on a manual: two parts, seminar and submitted contributions, are distinguished by white and yellow paper. Also, there are different page numbering systems and text use in both parts. The graphic elements in one part are silver blocks that emphasize the text, in the other part the lines stress the white space. They contrast each other.The layout is held together by the grid, header and the colors silver and black.

This book is a financial fail but an affair of the heart. Over 140 pages reflecting the transparent process of my graduate fashion collection, a cooperation with homeless people. The printing of softcover/poster and pages has cost a fortune. To save money I ‘ve cut all pages by myself and used a simple stapler for binding. I ‘ve mixed the pages with low cost laser prints on ordinary colored paper. Latter turned to a stylistic device. From images, over texts & interviews, to layout and spelling mistakes, the book is the result of my passionate work. I’ve sold 2 of 10 I’ve bound. The others were gifts to the homeless. Until today the rest of the uncut pages get dusty in a box.

WATER, FLUXUS, POETRY, JOHN CAGE, PIONEER, MYCOLOGY, HAPPENINGS, PIANO, MUSIC, ARIA, PERFORMANCE

John Cage – Prompt Poetry is a catalogue featuring AI generated images based on the music by John Cage and the characteristics of the FLUXUS movement. Later on these images were shown in a 360° video projection that was performed at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.

Throughout his career, the late artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman used to catalogue his numerous ideas and thoughts in notebooks; these notes were organized and published as a book, CHROMA, in 2013. It is Jarman’s personal pondering on chromatogram, and I disguised the book as a private notebook, making use of non-standardized production methods, including the bare threads on the book’s binding, and the uneven category label stickers. These man-made defects help to close the distance between readers and the author.

An observation of Taiwan’s local font designs, penned by a Japanese author. The jacket, filled with the fonts selected from the contents, is in one piece with the book itself, implying that the book lies down in Taiwan’s environment of fonts when the jacket is spread in full.

Josep Renau i el temps de les imatges.
catalog for the exhibition. Provincial Council of Valencia, 2022.

The main element of the image is the typography with which a contemporary aesthetic is intended, at the same time that it refers to the poster design of the 30s in Valencia. The catalog is structured according to the different areas of the exhibition, alternating a gray offset paper for the texts and a coating for the images contained in each of the sections. The preliminary pages are printed on a natural white offset paper. The silkscreened hardcover binding, which is cut at the foot and head of the book, and the continuous transit through the different papers give the publi

A publication that celebrates the 20-year history of the studio. In the images and texts are superimposed as indivisible layers of information. Thoughts and explanations behind the projects: ideas, processes, motivations, preferences, objectives, etc. Interior with 140 pages in two types of paper and various inserts.
The hardcover cover lined with colored paper and printed in black,
with a sheet glued on a dry print and a screen-printed text.

Botanik Torre is part of a real estate development project in which we were responsible for all identity design and communication assets. At that point, we already knew that the development’s location, in the heart of Recife, capital of the state of Pernambuco in Brazil, was an area full of vestiges of the past, a neighborhood in transformation, with an even more promising future. We didn’t want to address location – something precious in the real estate segment – just in a commercial way. We propose to contextualize the place from a historical, cultural and social perspective. In this way, we seek to create a deeper feeling among residents for the neighborhood and the city.

A llibret de falla is a popular festival publication, around the typical festivals of the fallas in Valencia. It is a low budget publication with a limited number of copies, around 300 units. The book contains explanatory texts and images of the falla by Mossén Sorell Corona that he made in 2023, the falla was a work by the well-known urban artist ESCIF. The theme is about good and bad luck.

This publication introduces sixteen visual works that were created between 2011 and 2022. Most of the drafts are based on the principle of improvisation loops. Intermediate results are continually modified until a final theme and a final form emerge from the handling of the concrete material and the openness of the process. This approach, which designers are already familiar with, serves as a working principle even beyond concrete commissions: over the course of these pages, the results of this continuous visual inquiry will be presented in context for the first time.

Design, layout and illustration for the book that contains the decalogue of the new Reggaetón Art movement, introductory texts and the work of participating artists.
A project by Ricardo Santonja inspired by the advice of the diplomat, Tomás Rodríguez-Pantoja, whose opinion is that reggaeton is making the whole world sing in Spanish as pop and rock already did with English. In the same way that pop spread to the plastic arts in the form of Pop Art, a new form of art is emerging that we call Reggaetón Art.
Given the production limitations, I opted for the graphics, which had to be modern and at the same time respectful of the different artists.

FAC3D (2021) initiated by Chong Yan Chuah, is a collaborative exploration encompassing the idea of the digital self; one that connects machine learning, digital art, and the written word. This publication includes writings and Q&As by human and machine writers.

The skin-like tactile, bold read cover can be personalised with two vivid stickers. The grey pamphlet is a compilation of selected A.I.-generated conversations from the visitors.

‘The Misconceptions of Me’ deals with growing up in two different cultures and its effect on one’s identity. I am reflecting on my own identity and trying to research what belonging means when home becomes a blurry space inbetween. The diffuse identity is given a three-dimensional container. The aspect of double-sidedness of being bicultural is emphasized, from material and medium choices to the thesis design, by incorporating methods of overlapping, mirroring and transparency. By doing so, the thesis as well as the visual booklet are part of the installation in its printed form and 3- and 2-dimensional spaces are interchangeable and connected, just as the two cultures one grew up with.

The project is reflecting on the strategy of hostile architecture/design. The first chapter of the photobook shows examples of the most common form of hostile design. As the added elements on the benches create a visual disharmony and an unexpected symmetry, the pages are bound in a special way to accent this symmetry. The photos of the second chapter serve as a reaction to the first, with the help of experimental typography.

We created a special format catalogue design for a renowned Indonesian artist’s exhibition of new works on the theme of media, which was reflected through a publication split into 3 different sections but bound to look like a stack of magazines. The resulting publication was interactive but could also be viewed linearly like a regular book.