Hallan un libro del XVI que se puede abrir de seis formas distintas. Redefiniendo el diseño editorial | Luciano Cassisi. La llamada «muerte del papel impreso» (end of print en inglés), hace una o dos décadas, abrió una discusión que a esta altura pareciera ya no tener mucho interés, porque ha quedado bastante claro que en las sociedades actuales, la impresión en papel seguirá resultando necesaria por bastante tiempo: la gráfica en papel no parece marchar hacia una desaparición inminente. En medio de esta transición que vivimos —que incorpora con bastante rapidez el soporte pantalla y, de a poco, va modificando los usos que le damos al soporte papel—, algunas de las áreas del diseño gráfico se han ido transformando. En este panorama surge la necesidad de construir un nuevo mapa de especialidades, ajustado a la realidad que ya estamos viviendo.
Empecemos por revisar el área más tradicional del diseño gráfico: el diseño editorial. Ediciones en papel y ediciones digitales Cuando hablamos de diseño editorial, en general nos referimos mayormente al diseño de libros, periódicos y revistas en papel. Author. Intriguing Photographs of a Woman Living in the Shadows. Be a Woman is a series of photographs where simple movements like combing one's hair or reading a book are transformed into beautifully dramatic gestures. Created by photographer Hanna Seweryn, each image features a bright glowing light that illuminates the shadow of an elegant female form behind the backlit screen.
The monochromatic tones give the sensation of an antique photo—a moment captured in time from the past. The blurry, anonymous woman inspires viewers to create all kinds of sensational narratives about the very basic, everyday moments. Where is she? Is she waiting for someone? Is she lingering in sadness or celebrating her time alone? The artist creates exciting stories through a creative vision that doesn't require many details. Hanna Seweryn on 500px via [Faith is Torment] Stories Come Alive with 360 Degree Cut Book. Incredible Shadow Art by Fabrizio Corneli. Stories Come Alive with 360 Degree Cut Book. Artist Transforms Books into Exciting Sculptural Stories. 16th Century Book Can Be Read Six Different Ways. It’s not everyday you see a book that can be read in six completely different ways, and this small book from the National Library of Sweden is definitely an anomaly. According to Medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel, this 16th century text has a special sixfold dos-à-dos (or “back to back”) binding with strategically placed clasps that makes it possible for six books to be neatly bound into one.
This particular book contains devotional texts, including Martin Luther’s Der kleine Catechismus, which was printed in German between the 1550’s and 1570’s. While it could be hard to keep your place in this book, you can’t ignore that the engineering of it is quite a feat. In the age of the Kindle, Nook, and iPad, it’s a nice reminder of handcrafted ingenuity. National Library of Sweden’s Flickrvia [Colossal, Erik Kwakkel] PLEGABLE/ Milton Glaser: on Behance.
23 Creative and Unique Wedding Invitations. I'm at the stage in my life where it seems like everyone is getting married. Every other week I find that new friends are getting engaged and shortly after I receive a Save-the-Date or invitation in the mail. Some invitations are like a breath of fresh air, completely unique and special in their own way, while others sort of blend together and look the same after a while. When you're sending out wedding invitations, while you do want your invitees to get all the details they need such as date, time, and location, what you really want is for them to receive a beautifully crafted package that represents the personalities of you and your fiancé. It can be incredibly difficult to craft an invitation that looks cool and provides guests with the information they need. So, today we're bringing you a selection of some of the most unique invitations we've seen out there for your inspiration.
Balloon Save the Date I think this idea for a Save the Date is a lot of fun. Paper Record Player Invitation. Motion Box-Set. We first wrote about London-based artist Von's "Animal Series" when he exhibited at Brooklyn's Espeis Gallery back in 2007. Since then, his delicately rendered and abstracted monochrome images of various animals from the series have appeared on the catwalks of Milan, the pages of Creative Review's monthly publication Monograph and even on billboards in both London and New York. Now, the artist has released "Motion," a limited edition box set of five new prints that sees the series move in a totally new direction. Each print in the box-set features an illustration of a bird in flight paired with a single brush stroke in a new hands-on collage process that Von hasn't exhibited in his work before.
"The birds are all drawn by hand as usual, but instead of that being the end of the process, they are then scanned, hi-res printed onto paper and assembled by hand onto wooden boards using wheat paste," Von tells CH of the methodology behind these new images. Images courtesy of Von. Dead Man's Hand. In the midst of two recent gallery shows, photographer and CH contributor Jonah Samson put out a new book titled "Dead Man's Hand. " This self-published offering, with a run of only 200 signed and numbered copies (10 of which are special editions that include a hand-painted silver print), contains a series of 20 thematically linked photographs, as well as found pin-up imagery and clippings from vintage detective magazines, what Samson refers to as "collected ephemera.
" The entire book is packed with imaginative allusion to the seedy history of film noir as it dabbles in darkness. Samson explained "'Dead Man's Hand' is a project that developed out of a bigger series of images I had been working on over the past three or four years called 'Noir', which explored my fascination with the sex and violence of early crime photography. " All of the fictional images capture moments from ornately crafted, small-scale models, each carefully lit and shot in a studio. Photos by David Graver. Fieldwork Identity by Fieldwork | Incredible Types. Behind the scenes: Designing the REMOTE book cover by Jamie of 37signals.
Many months ago Jason Fried asked me to think about a cover idea for REMOTE, a new book that he and David Heinemeier Hansson were writing. I thought REWORK, their previous book, had an iconic cover. The sole image of crumpled paper alluded to “back to the drawing board.” It’s a great cover. I decided early on to keep the main color scheme for the REMOTE cover: red, black, and white. I liked how the titles “REMOTE” and “REWORK” read like they’re part of a series. I also thought it’d be fun to try something similar in attitude to the crumpled paper. During this time, I was reading a book by David Byrne called How Music Works.
Could I make REMOTE typography that communicates remote? Then I traced it in Adobe Illustrator and set type around it. I still like this cover idea. Then I thought about not alluding to any physical objects. The “O” in REMOTE had a lot of potential. I uploaded that to Basecamp and 5 minutes later Jason Fried texts me: “You are a genius.” 3 | This Pop-Up Book Provides A Unique Look At Life In China. Photographer Colette Fu was raised by a mechanical engineer, a man who wanted his daughter to follow the same professional path. She did, but not in the way he expected. "I was making photographic collages on computer and I wanted to do something more hands on," Fu says. So she went to Barnes & Noble, intending to examine the game books and ended up buying pop-up books instead. She spent hours with the Wizard of Oz and Who Took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar, learning how to take the images apart and put them back together.
She's now an accomplished and awarded pop-up artist, having worked with a number of brands on commercial projects and created an ongoing series on the people of China. "I like the challenge of trying to engineer a pop-up," Fu says. Fu's most recent collection, We Are Tiger Dragon People, showcases the people of China's Yunnan Province. Professionally, Fu says pop-up books are a difficult medium. 5 Unique and Creative Book Designs. Finding examples of innovative design on the web is a simple thing. A quick search yields thousands of results related to phone apps, interactive websites and unusual programs, but where else can you find unique designs in the world that feature forward-thinking design?
Well, in one of the last places you might expect: books. Though they’re not a common medium for expressing modern concepts, at least not physically, there are a number of ingenious prototypes that may change the landscape of reading forever. Here are a few of the best examples of awesome books with wildly original designs. Fahrenheit 451 A classic book, no doubt, but Fahrenheit 451 was first published in 1953. Nineteen Eighty-Four Written by George Orwell, this book also speaks about the potential for a dystopian, strictly controlled future where free thought is discouraged and obedience is demanded. City Books Not all redesigns are for classic books or feature tactile elements. G.I. Harry Potter Unsurprisingly, J.K. Showcase | Incredible Types. Bmebooks.co. If the Web Preceded Print: Celebrating the New Golden Age of Book Design and Creativity on Paper.
By Maria Popova “This is an important and wonderful time to be a writer, a storyteller, a designer, a reader.” “The mind, the brain, the top of the tingling spine, is, or should be, the only instrument used upon a book,” Nabokov wrote in his treatise on what makes a good reader. And yet, as the future of storytelling hangs in anxiety-inducing uncertainty and the question of how to read a book continues to evolve its answers, analog books are challenged to reinvent themselves in marvelous ways and the value of exceptional book design is celebrated with rising reverence. There is something increasingly reassuring today about the physicality of print books, about using one’s hands and fingers as well as one’s mind and brain as the instruments of reading.
That’s precisely what the fine folks of Gestalten — who have a knack for pictorial magic, visual storytelling, and art as sensemaking — explore in Fully Booked — Ink on Paper: Design and Concepts for New Publications (public library). Coralie Bickford-Smith. Secret Fore-Edge Paintings Revealed in Early 19th Century Books at the University of Iowa. A Clever Book Kids Need A Flashlight To Read. Reading after dark has lost a bit of its wonder. In the era of tablets, there’s no need for kids to rebel in the nerdiest of ways, stashing contraband flashlights in order to sneak some reading under their blankets after bedtime. iPads have blindingly bright backlights built right in.
But a brilliant new book Hide & Eek! , by Rebecca Sutherland, Hat-Trick and Knock Knock, wants to bring some of that special experience back. It’s a book with a fun twist: The exciting and scary images are hidden during the day, and will only appear under a flashlight at night. “It’s magical then when images appear that cannot be seen with the naked eye,” explains Hat-Trick’s Creative Director Jim Sutherland.
“Even when you know how it works, it’s still amazing.” And it really couldn’t work more simply. But that sweet spot must be delightful in person. Order it here ($22) [Hat tip: psfk] The Beauty of Letterpress. Editoriales independientes: seductoras y carismáticas | Cultura. Viernes 12 de abril de 2013 Arriesgadas, innovadoras y carismáticas, las editoriales independientes llegan con más fuerza que nunca a la Feria Internacional del Libro de Bogotá. En tiempos en los que solo se habla de la crisis del sector, ellas llenan vacíos, seducen y venden. Cargando imagen. Por favor espere...
El libro de los ojos Ricardo Silva y Daniel Gómez Henao / Tragaluz Editores Memoria por correspondencia Emma Reyes / Laguna Libros la distancia entre extraños Mónica Naranjo Uribe / Editorial Robot Gabo, memorias de una vida mágica, de Rey Naranjo Editores arte colombiano del siglo XXI Karolina Rojas / Jardín A veces los libros quedan pesados. Después de idear y desarrollar un proyecto, hay que salir a la calle a venderlo con la energía que quede. Las editoriales independientes surgen de personas que adoran los libros y deciden invertir sus ahorros en un negocio poco rentable pero satisfactorio.
Ahora su situación no es tan incierta. Aprovechar la crisis Sobrevivir Cromos.com.co. George Daniels: A Master Watchmaker and his Art - Cool Hunting. Cool Hunting. By Tara Fraser While pin-up girls have been around in some form for more than 100 years, the duo behind SuicideGirls paved their way onto the scene in 2001 by taking an alternative approach to mainstream notions of beauty. These days SuicideGirls are known internationally through their highly trafficked online hub, which celebrates unapologetic and daringly different women. The community organization has once again taken a risk by shining a new, gentle light on their doughty darlings in "SuicideGirls: Hard girls, Soft light.
" The concept for the book takes the British slang term "Hard"—used to describe a tough, unyielding individual—and brings in a dash of vulnerability with well-lit compositions. We're always fans of those who dare to let their freak flag fly and opinions be heard, so we applaud the SuicideGirls for dimming the lights, baring it all and leaving us wanting more. "Suicide Girls: Hard Girls, Soft Light" is available on Amazon and from SuicideGirls. 49 stunning examples of letterpress printing. When it comes to printing, whether business cards, posters, greeting cards or invitations, you will invariably be presented with a multitude of mind-boggling options. You can opt for digital, die cut, thermography, lithography — the possibilities are endless!
But what about letterpress printing? And what exactly is letterpress printing anyway? For those that don’t already know, letterpress printing is a process of ‘relief’ printing text and image using a ‘type-high bed’ press and movable type, where a reversed and raised surface is inked and then pressed into paper to obtain a positive right-reading image. Following a revival that took place in the 1990’s, led by many design schools introducing the teaching of letterpress, the previously specialist and expensive form of printing has become widely used once again. Enough talking, we’ve gone ahead and generously pulled together 49 of the most gorgeous Letterpress prints we could find.
Have you worked with letterpress printing? Cut Out and Keep. A quirky London shop has been providing the creative community with copyright-free imagery for 20 years. Mark Sinclair visits the capital’s most intriguing visual resource, The Dover Bookshop The Dover Bookshop cuts quite a distinctive dash on London’s Earlham Street. Its elegant sign hangs above a vibrant yellow frontage that proudly spells out its dedicated line of business: “COPYRIGHT-FREE IMAGES”. Inside, hundreds of volumes of Dover Books’ Pictorial Archive line the shelves: within lie countless images of historic alphabets, design ornaments, folk motifs, illustrations and graphic art in virtually any style imaginable.
The shop is essentially a walk-in image library and, with Dover’s Pictorial Archive titles offering up their images permission-free, it’s become a firm favourite among creatives since it was established in 1986. “The original idea with Dover was to keep the classics in print,” explains bookshop manager, Tim Matthews. Dover Bookshop to close. The Future of the Book. Filmme Fatales. An Atlas Of Where Chefs Eat, Told In 50 Fonts And 700 Pages. Orwell, covered up. 10 Moleskine Journals From Some Of The Most Interesting Creatives Alive.