Karen Hanmer

Playful works fragment and layer text and image to intertwine memory, cultural history, and the history of science. I find her work has strong interest in dealing the the element of time and a play with viewer's mind.
An action or motion always exist in her pieces.
She also uses flag book structure to express this ongoing motion in her work.

Karen Hanmer

廖洁连 Liao Jielian

The composition of the layout and the use of frayed threads interest me a lot.

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杉浦康平

Japanese born graphic designer, 杉浦康平



His series of designs

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Formats

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Both using the spine as the unifying point for the whole series.


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Personal: I realise that many of the eastern book design always keep in mind of unifying the books together with book spine and often bounded within many layers. E.g opening flaps, enclose in casing

Minimalist book design

A book on China and Korea Calligraphy.



It amplifies the beauty of the characters stroke with the use of the spine of the book. The cover portrays calligraphic elements like the vertical writings, the whiteness, format of reading it and with contemporary elements of using white space to heighten the effect of the characters.

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