8 papers 8 sections 8 designers Volume 1
Book design is a rather interesting
come into play such as brightness, opacity,
discipline. Not only does one have to
light reflection, closeness of the surface,
configure information and content so that
etc. This is the world we wanted to explore,
it is readable, searchable, understandable
the core of the book, the essence of where
and aesthetically pleasing, but one also
content is stored.
has to consider a range of materials when producing the final artefact as a formal
The designer usually starts with the
three-dimensional object. Ink, cloth,
content and wonders, ‘what paper would
ribbon, paper, etc.
this particular content require? Do I have a lot of images? A lot of text? Drawings
Paper has various uses in a book: endpapers,
and diagrams?’.
cover, jacket, bellyband and book block. As creators of fine papers, we delight in the
To inspire book designers we took the liberty
emergence of technologies such as e-books
of turning this around. We picked up a few
because they transform the role of the
of our beloved white and ivory papers and
physical book. It is now becoming a more
asked ourselves,‘what content and design
interesting object than ever before. Books
would feature well on this paper?’ Also,
are better designed, better printed, and
we wanted to question the assumption that
often use better papers.
some papers are old-fashioned. Who uses laid paper nowadays? Bible publishers?
Fedrigoni papers are known for their richness
Academic publishers for philosophy texts?
in subtle and special effects, colour, texture,
We felt we needed to play with papers as
metallic parts, and more. These are usually
if we saw them for the first time.
the papers of choice for the most visible parts of the book, to attract the eye of the
So we worked hard, did our research and
book buyer. They often integrate with
created an anthology of interpretations
and enhance the cover design and upon
of papers for book blocks, which is what
picking up the book their incredible tactile
project 16 is all about. 16 is the number
quality can be enjoyed. These papers are
of pages of each section, 16 are the different
aesthetically exciting and technically strong,
paper stocks involved and 16 are the
resistant to folding, handling, dust, sunshine
outstanding designers from around the
and various other threats.
world that we chose to work with. The result is in your hands, two volumes rich
On the other hand, papers created for book
in creative, inspiring and intelligent uses
blocks are more subtle. They interact as
of material and content.
in a dance with the author’s content, with the ink of the printer, with the lighting
A lot of attractive possibilities to choose
conditions of the reader. Different factors
from. It is really a lovely problem to have…
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INDEX VOLUME 1
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STUDIO JOOST GROOTENS
RAINER GROOTHUIS
FrÉdÉric teschner studio
KAMEEL HAWA
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Wijtntje Van rooijen &
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Thomas MANSS & CoMPANY
Pierre PÉronNet
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Vlaanderen, two cartographies For the Belgian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 we developed two cartographic methods to show Flanders. The names of these two cartographies are anagrams of Vlaanderen, the Dutch word for Flanders: Reveal’n DNA and A Land Never.
A Land Never is based on a 50 × 50 m grid. Here GIS information is translated into axonometric drawings of functions. This was developed to show the sprawl of seemingly unplanned program that is so typical for Flanders’ countryside.
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Reveal’n DNA
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A Land Never
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Reveal’n DNA is based on a 5 × 5 km grid and shows large scale processes like urbanisation. The approach of this cartography is more data like than existing methodologies.
Studio Joost Grootens, August 2012
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Fedrigoni, 2012: The content should reflect the cultural and historical background the designers live in and inspire a sense of local identity. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975: Diese wahre Geschichte bestimmt euch zu Opfern einer Wertkrise, denn die neue Macht, die von uns allen gemeinsam geschaffen worden ist, hat jede bisherige Kultur zerstört, um ihre eigene Kultur zu errichten, die aus nichts anderem als Produktion und Konsum besteht und daher aus falschem Glück. Weil euch alle Werte geraubt wurden, lebt ihr in einer Leere, in der es keine Orientierung und keine Würde mehr gibt. Die wenigen Eliten unter euch ersticken zum einen am Konformismus, zum andern an Verzweiflung.
Don Quichotte trifft Bartleby.
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Ist die Welt schon eine runde Sache?
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1 A type of two cities 2 A short story of free choice 3 The poem of discontent 4 Three women twice 5 The instruments of waiting 6 A night poem for the day 7 Incidents of belonging
Kameel Hawa
Two pigeons on an electric wire (sketch on my Ipad. July 2012)
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FLATLAND
Edwin Abbott Abbott
Icall our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight lines, triangles, squares, pentagons, hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. Our women are straight lines. Our soldiers and lowest classes of workmen are triangles with two equal sides. Our middle class consists of equilateral or equal-sided triangles. Our professional men and gentlemen are squares (to which class I myself belong) and five-sided figures or pentagons. Next above these come the nobility, of whom there are several degrees, beginning at six-sided figures, or hexagons, and from thence rising in the number of their sides till they receive the honourable title of polygonal, or many-sided. Finally when the number of the sides becomes so numerous, and the sides themselves so small, that the figure cannot be distinguished from a circle, he is included in the circular or
our middle class
... consists of equilateral or equal sided triangles.
equilateral triangle. Thus, in the most brutal and
The birth of a true equilateral triangle from
formidable off the soldier class--creatures almost
isosceles parents is the subject of rejoicing in our
on a level with women in their lack of intelligence-
country for many furlongs round. After a strict
-it is found that, as they wax in the mental ability
examination conducted by the sanitary and social
necessary to employ their tremendous penetrating
board, the infant, if certified as regular, is with
power to advantage, so do they wane in the power
solemn ceremonial admitted into the class of
of penetration itself. How admirable is the law of
equilaterals. He is then immediately taken from
compensation! And how perfect a proof of the
his proud yet sorrowing parents and adopted by
natural fitness and, I may almost say, the divine
some childless equilateral, who is bound by oath
origin of the aristocratic constitution of the states
never to permit the child henceforth to enter
of Flatland! By a juidicious use of this law of nature,
his former home or so much as to look upon his
the polygons and circles are almost always able to
relations again, for fear lest the freshly developed
stifle sedition in its very cradle, taking advantage
organism may, by force of unconscious imitation,
of the irrepressible and boundless hopefulness of
fall back again into his hereditary level. Had the
the human mind. Art also comes to the aid of law
acute-angled rabble been all, without exception,
and order. It is generally found possible--by a little
absolutely destitute of hope and of ambition,
artificial compression or expansion on the part of
they might have found leaders in some of their
the state physicians--to make some of the more
many seditious outbreaks, so able as to render
intelligent leaders of a rebellion perfectly regular,
their superior numbers and strength too much
and to admit them at once into the privileged
even for the wisdom of the circles. But a wise
classes; a much larger number, who are still below
ordinance of nature has decreed that, in proportion
the standard, allured by the prospect of being
as the working-classes increase in intelligence,
ultimately ennobled, are induced to enter the
knowledge, and all virtue, in that same proportion
state hospitals, where they are kept in honourable
their acute angle (which makes them physically
confinement for life; one or two alone of the most
terrible) shall increase also and approximate
obstinate, foolish, and hopelessly irregular are led
to their comparatively harmless angle of the
to execution.
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