INDIGO DESIGN WINNER 2024
INDIGO DESIGN WINNER 2024
INDIGO DESIGN WINNER 2024
INDIGO DESIGN WINNER 2024
INDIGO DESIGN WINNER 2024
INDIGO DESIGN WINNER 2024
INDIGO DESIGN WINNER 2024
INDIGO DESIGN WINNER 2024
Review of Book Art
/by Joanna Skrzypiec
2024 Freelancer Winner
Silver Winner in Book Design for Graphic Design
Created by:
Designer
Joanna Skrzypiec
Client
The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design
Description
The over 200-pages, extensive publication presents 50 artistic book done by 45 artist. The Book is printed on 3 sheet of paper Sirio by Fedrigioni. Include minimalist cut out hard cover and open thread stitching. "The exhibition "All-Poland Review of Book Art" has quite naturally become a sui generis atlas of various creative strategies, at the same time mapping the territory traversed by representatives of various artistic disciplines following their own trajectories.They include graphic artists,both those who are closer to printmaking and those definitely more into design, painters, photographers, ceramists, textile and paper artists, set designers, costume designers, installation artists and filmmakers.They may not all think of themselves as book artists, but some of them do perceive this area of exploration as the most important one.The over fifty-strong exhibition line-up includes names immediately associated with the "Polish book art" label, but also those who are completely new yet present works which undoubtedly ensure an unorthodox approach to the matter in question. For some of the artists the word/image relationship is the key area of interest, for others it is the function of the book as a carrier of text, yet for all of them it is the form and sense that remain essential. Some follow the beaten track on their journey through the astonishing territory of book art, sticking to the principles of book anatomy and accepting the codex as its most popular form to this day - with stacked pages, but not necessarily sheets of paper, bound together and secured at the spine. Some delve deeper, probing the book's history and referring to its historical form of scrolls or clay tablets, others take a detour from the main route to turn into a secondary but well-travelled side street of the leporello, or concertina book. Still others speed down the motorway of graphic design, testing the viewers' interest in unconventional ideas. There are also those who decide to take the meandering paths of such unobvious solutions as pop-ups, stacks of cards, 3D objects made from various materials, or the alchemy of paper pulp. And finally we have those who blaze trails, offering a jacket fashioned from words, a musical score of an original composition placed on a music stand, the vision of a patient of the future or a laboratory of paper matter." Author of this text: Anita Wincencjusz-Patyna