Layout, Printmaking and Graphics
2021-2025
Technical Bookmaking
Various printed technical art archival books designed by me.
Client
Various
scope
Layout, Printmaking and Graphics
year
2021-2025
duration
Multiple durations, averaging a week for each.
Overview
In Brief . .
Over the past decade I’ve designed, edited and produced printed material for design studios, universities, libraries, galleries and non-profits. A central example is the Design X Design 10th Anniversary Book, where I worked as photographer, archivist, editor and curator. The same approach runs through the USP Student Guide, the printed material for my master’s thesis exhibit and the archiving I did at Galleria Forum Box. Each time, the client had a body of material and needed it to become something a reader could hold and follow.
The Challenge
Many Voices, One Spine.
Archives and anniversary projects arrive unsorted: photographs, notes, drawings and memories from many people, with no common order or style. A book has to hold all of it together without flattening what makes each piece worth keeping. Print adds its own pressure, since scale, colour and legibility must work on paper, and there’s no chance to adjust after it’s printed.
the solution
Creatively Curated Compendiums.
I start with the content: archiving, selecting and sequencing it, so the book has a structure before it has a look. Layouts are then built in InDesign, with Illustrator and Photoshop for graphics and image work. Because I also photograph and edit, I can fill gaps in the material myself instead of designing around them. The client works with one person from the first sort to print-ready files.
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