Best Moments Photo Album by Izabela Jurczyk is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.
IronGraphic· 2020
Best Moments Photo Album
Client: Adam Mickiewicz Institute
A' Design Award Winner in Graphic Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #103681The Design
About Best Moments Photo Album
Best Moments is a photo album made for instant photographs. The album joins the traditional album format with a diary function, providing space to insert each photo and to write a description beside it. Best Moments consists of two parts, a longer album and a shorter outer case, held together and protected by an elastic string. The cover is made by hand from ecological paper that contains up to twenty-five percent leather waste in place of cellulose fibres. Copper foil hot stamping and golden screws complete the design.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Best Moments Photo Album is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Best Moments Photo Album is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Best Moments Photo Album is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Grand Interview
Your innovative use of eco-friendly paper containing 25% skin debris in the Best Moments Photo Album challenges traditional materials - could you elaborate on how this unique material choice enhances both the tactile experience and sustainability of your design?
The use of environmentally friendly paper containing 25% leather residues in the Best Moments photo album allowed us to obtain a product resistant to mechanical damage resulting from use, the raw material behaves like leather, i.e. with ageing it acquires a patina, which adds to its beauty, additionally, by using recycled materials we care for our environment.
The Best Moments Photo Album beautifully merges traditional photo preservation with diary functionality - what inspired you to create this hybrid format, and how does it address our modern relationship with digital imagery?
The Best Moments photo album was designed for a special event organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, it served to integrate and exchange contacts in an analogue way, i.e. during the meeting, photos were taken using an Instax camera, which guests could immediately put into the album and note down new acquaintances. I think that in the era of global digitization, such activities allow maintaining balance in relationships between people through direct contact.
Your copper gilding and golden screws in the Best Moments Photo Album create a striking vintage aesthetic - could you share the creative process behind achieving this delicate balance between luxury craftsmanship and accessibility?
The copper gilding and gold screws in the Best Moments photo album were intended to give an unusual vintage aesthetic. Using hot stamping technology, I was able to reproduce the impression of gilding and create the impression of real fittings in an accessible way.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- A unique polaroid photo album. It was commissioned by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as a showcase of Polish design in international contacts. It is characterized by a unique hand-made, a combination of paper referring to the skin with beautiful copper gilding. The album consists of two parts: a longer album with a place to insert the photo and a place for their description, and an external short case that is a form. The whole connects and protects the elastic string.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- best moments consists of two parts, photo album and case, both parts are connected with an elastic string. Raw material - REMAKE .., tracing paper with white printing. Refinement -hot stamping with copper foil. Binding - golden screws. Dimensions, 230 mm x 128 mm x 16 mm
- Tags
- photo, album, diary, notebook, memory
- Production Technology
- Ecological paper inspired by the fashion sector was used to implement the project. Its composition contains up to 25% of skin debris, thus replacing cellulose fibers. Remains of the skin visible on the surface of the paper give it a unique look, make the paper pleasant and soft to the touch and retains exceptional strength. The casing has been refined with hot stamping with copper foil, the hand made cover is based on gold screws and gives the whole a luxurious character.
- Inspiration
- The project was inspired by the desire to combine the traditional form of photo album with the diary function. In today's world, we are surrounded by a lot of images that pass, we take thousands of photos, but we almost never print and describe them, we do not save important moments for us, this album is a form of stopping time. It has a vintage, elegant atmosphere.
- Project Duration
- The project started in October 2019 and finished in December 2019 in Lodz
- Operation Flow
- A unique photo-diary for storing photos important to you and contact entries to people close to you. Maintained in an elegant vintage style. Beautiful and functional at the same time.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Studio Design
- Team Members
- Izabela Jurczyk
STUDIO DESIGN - Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Robert Bobryk
Image #2: Photographer Robert Bobryk
Image #3: Photographer Robert Bobryk
Image #4: Photographer Robert Bobryk
Image #5: Photographer Robert Bobryk
PDF: Creator Robert Bobryk
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