Architectural Traces Llibre by Stjepko Rosin

Architectural Traces Llibre by Stjepko Rosin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Ferro in Disseny de Mitjans Impresos i Publicats Competition Category.

FerroImprès· 2022

Architectural Traces Llibre

by Stjepko Rosin

Client: Naklada Boskovic

A' Design Award de Ferro Winner in Imprès Category

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The Design

About Architectural Traces Llibre

Petjades Arquitectòniques és un llibre sobre l'obra d'un arquitecte dàlmata. La coberta té un pla inclinat que recorda una teulada amb les típiques teules romanes quan es veu de lluny. Vista de prop, la trama es revela com a imatges d'una ressonància magnètica real de la columna vertebral de l'arquitecte. La il·lusió òptica assenyala la realitat oculta i dolorosa que s'amaga darrere dels edificis admirats. El llibre mesura 270 mm per 270 mm per 35 mm i està imprès en paper offset amb enquadernació cosida rígida i sense sobrecoberta. La coberta assoleix una posició obliqua oberta durant l'ús.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Ferro

Architectural Traces Llibre és un guanyador del guardó A' Design Award de Ferro, un reconeixement prestigiós concedit a bons dissenys que compleixen els requisits professionals i industrials esperats de creacions ben dissenyades. Els guanyadors de Ferro demostren una gran habilitat, una alta especialització, una comprensió experta i la capacitat creativa dels seus creadors. Es preveu que Architectural Traces Llibre sigui una creació molt apreciada, admirada i estimada que és pràctica i innovadora. Aquest disseny guanyador del guardó A' Design Award de Ferro integra les millors pràctiques del sector i té característiques tècniques competents lligades al coneixement i al talent. Architectural Traces Llibre és respectat per la seva minuciositat i està pensat per oferir millores en la qualitat de vida que ajuden a fer del món un lloc millor.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Looking from a distance at the sloping side of the cover, we recognize a roof with typical Dalmatian Roman tiles. It is created by the optical illusion of images of the actual Magnetic resonance of the architect's spine, which can be seen when we approach the book. They reveal the hidden and painful reality of a responsible Dalmatian architect, the one behind the buildings we admire.
Dimensions & Packaging: Dimensions are 270 mm x 270 mm x 35 mm
Tags: Book, Architecture, Spine, Traces, Dalmatian, Roman
Production Technology: The format of the book was chosen as the one that corresponds to the difference in proportions and quality content of the publication, not too large for the convenience of leafing. It is printed on quality offset paper, hard, stitched binding without the outer paper wrapper.
Design Challenge: The challenge was how to show the life of an architect who is not easy. To show it true in a society that has prejudices against responsible architects and that perceives architecture in the wrong way. Show that not all architects are the same.
Research: Almost a lifelong experience, living in the same household with an architect, talking many times about architecture, I witnessed many successes but also injustice, misunderstanding, pressure, threats, sleepless nights, and consequently health problems.
Inspiration: The Dalmatian architecture disappears under the trends. The authors of the book, called Architectural Traces, describe the works of a renowned Dalmatian architect Jerko Rosin, as modest, considerate, rational, responsible for the area, without unnecessary trendy views. And on the spine that has not bent in front of insatiable investors, which are consistency, stress, and years spent in a chair, I notice some different architectural, more painful, traces.
Project Duration: The project started in October 2019 in Split and finished in January 2020 in Split, and was exhibited in Hotel Park congress hall in January 2020.
Operation Flow: The book is not designed flat. Although it communicates even when closed, it comes to full expression during use, when opening the book, when the cover comes into its open oblique position.
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Stjepko Rosin, 2021
Image #2: Photographer Stjepko Rosin, 2021
Image #3: Photographer Stjepko Rosin, 2021
Image #4: Photographer Stjepko Rosin, 2021
Image #5: Photographer Stjepko Rosin, 2021