Stock and Financial Instruments Guia de Disseny by Jakub Stelmach

Stock and Financial Instruments Guia de Disseny by Jakub Stelmach is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award d'Argent in Disseny de Mitjans Impresos i Publicats Competition Category.

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Stock and Financial Instruments Guia de Disseny

by Jakub Stelmach

Client: Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice

A' Design Award d'Argent Winner in Imprès Category

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The Design

About Stock and Financial Instruments Guia de Disseny

Stock and Financial Instruments és una guia impresa sobre el disseny d'informació visual per als mercats de valors i els instruments financers. El llibre combina mètodes de visualització de dades amb els fonaments dels mercats financers. El contingut està preparat per a dissenyadors que comencen a treballar per a empreses financeres i necessiten una comprensió ràpida d'ambdós camps. La terminologia es va recopilar i revisar amb un especialista en economia. El llibre té una coberta rígida de tèxtil negre amb serigrafia i una sobrecoberta amb una imatge abstracta. Les pàgines utilitzen un paper llis de 120 grams per evitar la transparència.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Argent

Stock and Financial Instruments Guia de Disseny és un guanyador del guardó A' Design Award d'Argent, un reconeixement extraordinàriament prestigiós concedit a dissenys d'alta gamma, esplèndids i impressionants. Els guanyadors d'Argent són obres tremendament brillants i summament creatives que il·lustren la perícia, el talent i la perspicàcia excepcionals dels seus dissenyadors. Es preveu que Stock and Financial Instruments Guia de Disseny sigui una obra meravellosa i de gran lluïment, remarcablement professional i profundament innovadora. Aquest disseny guanyador del guardó A' Design Award d'Argent és un invent molt notable i admirat que beneficia i fa avançar els límits de l'art, la ciència, el disseny i la tecnologia. Stock and Financial Instruments Guia de Disseny és una creació molt envejada que evoca desitjos, introdueix sentiments positius i desperta sorpresa i admiració.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: This book constitutes a compendium of theoretical and practical knowledge in the range of designing visual information for stocks and financial instruments, stock markets analysis, and any other related. This guidebook is a synthesis of two knowledge branches, that is data visualization and the basics of financial markets. It was designed with all the novice designers who decide to start working for any financial company in mind. To broaden their knowledge and show other designer's perspective.
Dimensions & Packaging: Dimensions 176 mm x 241mm
Black textile hardcover and screenprinting
Book jacket with an abstract visual plus short description on the back
Tags: Book, design, typography, infographics, book editing, data visualization
Production Technology: The book is hard covered, covered in textile (so it is more durable and will also give a high aesthetic look). Insides are made with Munken Lynx Smooth 120g/m2 – so that the color of the graphic does not show through to other pages.
Design Challenge: The biggest challenge was to gather all the data and information so that the book finally gives a quick understanding on the both topics.
Research: To define a problem I have used Design Thinking methods. This way I have found a problem, then the reason it happens, described the problem and potential users. In the next step, I have clarified the users, tried to understand their needs. Finally had to find a way to solve the given problem and a medium that eventually was a printed book.
Inspiration: The idea came from my own experience working for a financial institution (as a designer) that did not provide special courses on the financial market topic. I have gathered most of the terminology and consulted with an Economic Ph.D. Moreover, on the polish market, there is no such publication that combines the design basics and financial knowledge for all those who are interested in data visualization for stock markets, etc.
Project Duration: The project started in February 2020, printed in May 2021
Operation Flow: The book is a knowledge compendium on the topics of data visualization in the context of visualizing for financial markets.
Patents: All the copy in the book comes from different sources like books, online articles, etc. All mentioned in the bibliography.
Image Credits: All images were taken by Jakub Stelmach.