Faces do Design : Design Editorial · Academic project ·
Faces of Design is a proposal for a collection of books, in wich each volume seeks to address a specific area of design through the point of view of designers, and their beliefs about their work. Each volume presents a brief description of the area that comes and the work of two designers, with two different lives, different cultures and views on the world and also on the design.
The aim is to talk about each area, considering not only the rules and parameters established within the design, but mostly as they are worked by each designer.
In this first volume, Editorial Design theme is approached from designers Irma Boom and Derek Birdsall. The first, Dutch born in the 60s, trained in art school, brings to his work a great authorial burden, conferring great expressiveness to their projects. The second, a Londoner born 30 years earlier, brings a little more conventional traits, always privileging content to form.
· About the design ·
Glove and cover complement each other. When togheter, they show the face of the designer, whose interview can be read in the book. When separated, they show both designers at the same time. The book was made in a way to not suggest a beggining or an end, which is why it was made without a spine, in a way that you can open and read it from both sides, one side taking you to the other.
View from the Derek Birdsall side.
View from the Irma Boom side.
The book was also made with similar proportions to the human face, which where also considered during the elaboration of the grid and the placement of the content, that way, images are always at eye-level, while quotes remain in mouth-level. Maintaning the relation to the human body, the paper’s color and texture were chosen to match those of the human skin.
Here an example of the use of the grid - the images were aligned as much as possible near to the eyeline.
Quotes were preferentially aligned with the line of the mouth.
FORMAT - closed: 17x21cm · open: 21x357cm
MATERIALS:
Book: Design Pale Cream, Rives Arjo Wiggins (250g/m2 – core e 120g/m2 – annex)
Glove: red acetate 0,35mm
MATERIALS:
Book: Design Pale Cream, Rives Arjo Wiggins (250g/m2 – core e 120g/m2 – annex)
Glove: red acetate 0,35mm
Special thanks: 42 fotografia for the photos · Iara Mol, Joana Alves, Luciana Darwich and Sergio Lemos for the orientation · Gabriel Figueiredo for always supporting me :)