Architectural Traces Kirja by Stjepko Rosin

Architectural Traces Kirja by Stjepko Rosin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Rautapalkinto A' Design Award in Painomuotoilu Competition Category.

RautaPainotuotteet· 2022

Architectural Traces Kirja

by Stjepko Rosin

Client: Naklada Boskovic

Rautapalkinto A' Design Award Winner in Painotuotteet Category

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The Design

About Architectural Traces Kirja

Architectural Traces on kirja dalmatialaisen arkkitehdin työstä. Kannen viisto sivu muistuttaa kaukaa katsottuna kattoa perinteisine roomalaistiilineen. Läheltä tarkasteltuna kuvio paljastuu arkkitehdin selkärangasta otetun todellisen magneettikuvauksen kuviksi. Optinen illuusio viittaa ihailtujen rakennusten takana piileviin ja kivuliaisiin todellisuuksiin. Kirjan mitat ovat 270 mm x 270 mm x 35 mm, ja se on painettu offset-paperille kovalla ompelusidonnalla ilman ulkoista suojakantta. Kansi asettuu käytön aikana avoimeen vinoasentoon.

The Recognition

About the Rautapalkinto A' Design Award

Architectural Traces Kirja on Rautapalkinnon A' Design Award -voittaja, arvostettu tunnustus, joka myönnetään hyville designeille, jotka täyttävät hyvin suunnitelluilta luomuksilta odotetut ammatilliset ja teollisuuden vaatimukset. Rautavoittajat osoittavat tekijöidensä suurta taitoa, korkeaa erikoistumista, asiantuntevaa ymmärrystä ja luovaa kapasiteettia. Architectural Traces Kirja:n odotetaan olevan korkeassa arvossa pidetty, ihailtu ja rakastettu luomus, joka on käytännöllinen ja innovatiivinen. Tämä Rautapalkinnon A' Design Award -voittajadesign yhdistää alan parhaita käytäntöjä, ja sillä on pätevät tekniset ominaisuudet, jotka yhdistyvät osaamiseen ja lahjakkuuteen. Architectural Traces Kirja:a arvostetaan sen perusteellisuudesta, ja se on suunniteltu tarjoamaan elämänlaadun parannuksia, jotka auttavat tekemään maailmasta paremman paikan.

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