physiognomy- a thousand words can say a face

This study hopes to reshape experiences and allow one to look further into or beyond the human face.





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Western book covers archive

Book cover archive

Urban Jealousy

April 2008 - book project for "Urban Jealousy", 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran
Book redesign: Nicolas Bourquin and Jeannette Gaussi. Unique piece.


A "Jalousie" is a window that one can see through but not be seen. International and Iranian artists are given an understanding of their very own jalousie perspective. In this context the artwork of Nicolas Bourquin and Jeannette Gaussi propose to re-read the lifework of Alexander von Humboldt.

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Blackbox2

Unexpected and provocative book created by designers for designers by Brand Managers for brand





A design catalogue by Victor Konovalov

Poetry and Art: The Letting Go

A fusion between poetry and art.
Reference point on how narrative form is depicted in a artist's book manner. The relationship between the poetry and the images reemphasize the text itself.
The elements of design used in this book reminded us about the destructive art by the Dada from the modern art.



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If there is smoke, there is fire

Innovative concept and use of material. Overlapping methodology of the idea "edge". The edge of a book vs the edge of the matchbox.

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Design Project from England

Branding and promotional literature for this leading national printing specialist selling print to the creative industry.



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Promotional desk calendar (created in
two languages) for this leading supplier of fine Italian papers – displaying week-to-view flip-up cards in a colour co-ordinated sequence.



It is a functional and appropriate use of materials to display a catalogue of papers. The defined grid and custom typeface for the calandar.

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Katherina Manolessou

Illustrator Katherina Manolessou has created a number of limited edition books working with silk screen, linocut and letterpress printing. These personal projects have helped her to visually narrate stories and develop her illustration work. She finds taking charge of the whole process, from idea generation to bookbinding.



Manolessou states that 'skills in typography, design and layout are essential for an image-maker, enabling you to speak the designer/art director's language, create self-promotional material and engage in a wider variety of projects. Manolessou also collaborates on book projects with illustrator and printmaker Otto Dettmer.

I like the use of accordion binding to bring the colours of the illustration instantly to the viewer. As if presenting an overview of the narrative story in a shot.

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Write up: Wigan, Mark. Text and Image. Singapore: AVA Publishing SA, 2008.

Book Art

"Nowadays, book art reaches beyond the traditional ink and paper format, and incorporates a vast range of materials, techniques and methodologies... the book art genre encompasses approaches from multiple to limited edition livres d'artistes, from small press handcrafted books to book-like works of art..."

Those who have pioneered development in this field include William Morris, the Kelmscott Press, William Blake, Ambroise Vollard, the Futurists, Dadaists, Surrealists, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Sonia Delaunay, Jean Dubuffet, Fluxus, Ed Ruscha, Liliane Lijn, Dieter Roth, Sol LeWitt, Tom Philips and Rachel Whiteread.

Exploring the book as a vehicle for personal creative expression allows illustrators to investigate and integrate:

• Form and Function
  
• Content
  
• Narrative
  
• structure
  
• texture
  
• format
  
• paper
  
• engineering
  
• text, image and object relationships
  
• pacing
  
• pagination
  
• sequence
  
• juxtaposition
  
• time
  

Information from: Wigan, Mark. Text and Image. Singapore: AVA Publishing SA, 2008.

What is a book?

The term "book" may indicate,

• A collection of paper leaves bound together.
  
• A number of written or printed sheets fastened together at the back by means of some kind of cover known as binding.
  
• A literary treatise, usually written or printed in one volume, but sometimes in several volumes if forming a single work.
  
• A literary work
  
• Main parts of a literary production (e.g the Iliad consists of 24 "books")
  

The actual origin of the word "book" was from an Old English work for "beech tree", boc. The connection between "book" and "beech tree" was probably that the English monks wrote their books on white beech tablets. More probable is the following theory: Old English boc means "charter", and its plural means "tablets, writing tablets, written sheets"; hence, supposedly "book".

On the other hand, the term "book" derives from the German word Buch, meaning "beech", and is connected with the fact that, in early days, beech wood was largely used for binding books. The beechen covers "were light decorative and very carefully dried and seasoned..." (C. Davenport).

Extracted from: Diringer, David. The Book Before Printing Ancient, Medieval and Oriental. NY:Dover Publications, 1982. P.24-25.