The Birth of a Book Buch von Urszula Giren

Das Design The Birth of a Book Buch von Urszula Giren ist ein hoch angesehener Gewinner des sehr prestigeträchtigen 2020 A' Design Award in Gold in der Wettbewerbskategorie Druckdesign.

GoldDruck· 2020

The Birth of a Book Buch

von Urszula Giren

Auftraggeber: Urszula Gireń

Gewinner des A' Design Award in Gold in der Kategorie Druck

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Über The Birth of a Book Buch

„Die Geburt eines Buches" ist eine gedruckte Publikation über die Buchgestaltung im Polen des 16. Jahrhunderts. Das Buch zeigt alte Drucke in Originalgröße, sodass die Leserschaft die ursprünglichen Formate erkennen kann. Der Schutzumschlag veranschaulicht das Ausschießverfahren, das für das alte Oktavformat verwendet wurde. Ein Lesebändchen markiert die Höhen von Folio-, Quart- und Oktavbänden. Die Holzschnitte auf den Titelseiten sind in invertierten Farben gedruckt und erinnern so an mit schwarzer Druckfarbe eingefärbte Druckstöcke. Das Format beträgt 256 mal 320 Millimeter, der Umfang 560 Seiten mit rund 1200 Abbildungen. Ziel ist es, die Drucktechniken der Renaissance einem breiten Publikum verständlich zu machen.

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Über den A' Design Award in Gold

The Birth of a Book Buch ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Gold, einer überaus prestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für erstklassige, wunderbare und herausragende Designs. Gold-Gewinner sind äußerst innovative, visionäre und glamourös blendende Schöpfungen, die das Genie, die Weisheit und die Meisterschaft ihrer Designer widerspiegeln. Von The Birth of a Book Buch wird erwartet, dass es eine hochgepriesene, trendsetzende und monumentale Erfindung ist, die beispiellosen Mehrwert liefert. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Gold prämierte Design ist ein spektakuläres, respektiertes Projekt, das den Grenzen von Kunst, Wissenschaft, Design und Technologie in hohem Maße zugutekommt und sie voranbringt. The Birth of a Book Buch erzeugt intensive Gefühle des Verlangens, weckt Leidenschaft, ermutigt zur Kreativität und fasziniert uns.

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Einzigartige Eigenschaften: The designed structure of publications presents the old prints in real size and the method of their production in additional elements like a dust jacket which show printing sheet, typographic composition at 1:1 scale. The woodcuts in color inversion on the title pages refer to matrices covered with black ink. The compositions of this pages were plotted on a scheme invented by Villard de Honnecourt, 13th century artist, and refer to the proportions of columns, margins used in the 16th century.
Abmessungen & Verpackung: Format:
256 x 320 mm in a 1.25 ratio, 560 pages, the page format allowed the calculation of a multi-level grid for the composition of individual elements, including 1200 illustrations.
Schlagwörter: renaissance book, first roman typefaces, old prints, typography
Produktionstechnologie: The work was digitally printed and a hardback, paper binding, thermo-gluing was used. The covering is made of black beater-dyed paper. There are also a dust jacket reflecting an imposition method for the old octavo book format, as well as a ribbon - bookmark, depicting the folio, quarto and octavo heights. Covering: Geltex Negro Antracita 191 Embossing LS 115 g (beater-dyed paper), silver color - screen printing, binder's board: spine board 2 mm, base case 3 mm, Dust Jacket: Color Style Black Smooth 120 g (beater-dyed paper) silver color - screen printing, Endpaper: Geltex Negro Antracita 191 Embossing LS 130 g (beater-dyed paper), Book-block: Pergraphica Natural Smooth 120 g, CMYK - digital printing, HP Indigo, printing according to fiber direction, PUR glue, Headband: Black, Ribbon bookmark: Black, silver color
Designherausforderung: The biggest challenge was complicated structure of the text - a lot of auxiliary and descriptive texts, an unusually large number of various illustrations - 1274. Organizing the appropriate grid required several verifications. I based the project largely on mathematical calculations related to the content of the publication. The divisions and colors used resulted entirely from the content and the assumption of the best possible exposure of illustrations and text. By learning the methodology of 16th-century typographers, you can see frequent references to numbers that have always been present in nature. The search for systematization the surrounding world by the renaissance artists was huge inspiration. Each element in the world has its place and meaning, nothing is accidental, everything is connected with each other and interacts with each other. I also wanted to build a relationship system in the design of my publication, where the smallest part would result from the structure of the whole.
Forschung: The first part of book contains basic information about printing, introduces the reader to the general principles of Renaissance design. In the second part of the publication, printing in Poland was discussed in more detail. This part was divided into 5 chapters, four of which have been assigned specific cities. The choice of places was justified by the pioneering activity of the printing houses, which opened there, their size, as well as the quality of the publications they produced.
Inspiration: The main inspirations were the general principles of Renaissance design. The first stage of the project included gathering graphic material necessary to conduct research on the old European, Polish books. The study covered individual elements, starting from the materials from which books were created: papers, binding materials, typefaces, ornaments, graphics. Information was also collected on the most well-known Polish and European publishers, typographers and punchcutters.
Projektdauer: The project started in May 2017 in Bialystok and finished in February 2019 in Katowice, Poland
Betriebsablauf: All the elements in the book have been designed to familiarize the reader with the methodology of creating books in the 16th century. Starting from the format of the book showing real formats of old prints, to the dust jacket presenting the printing imposition, or the ribbon indicating the height of old books - folio, quarto, otavo.
Bildnachweise: Urszula Gireń / 2019