Music of the Skalne Podhale Region Manuel d'apprentissage musical by Aleksandra Toborowicz

Music of the Skalne Podhale Region Manuel d'apprentissage musical by Aleksandra Toborowicz is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Bronze in Imprimé Competition Category.

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Music of the Skalne Podhale Region Manuel d'apprentissage musical

by Aleksandra Toborowicz

Client: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Imprimé Category

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About Music of the Skalne Podhale Region Manuel d'apprentissage musical

« La musique de la région du Skalne Podhale » est un manuel d'apprentissage de la musique montagnarde. Ce coffret en trois volumes aborde la théorie, la notation par doigtés et la notation musicale, et s'accompagne d'enregistrements. Chaque volume s'ouvre à plat, ce qui en permet une utilisation confortable pendant l'exécution des morceaux. Le graphisme de la couverture associe l'horizon montagneux à l'aspect d'un enregistrement sonore visualisé dans un logiciel d'édition musicale, et compose une image en miroir évoquant les reflets des lacs de montagne. Les titres et les motifs sont imprimés en sérigraphie sur une toile de lin brute parcourue de fils rouges, en référence aux costumes traditionnels des montagnards.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Music of the Skalne Podhale Region Manuel d'apprentissage musical est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze, une reconnaissance hautement prestigieuse décernée à des designs remarquables qui se distinguent par leur créativité, leur ingéniosité et leur sagacité. Les lauréats Bronze sont des artefacts amplement habiles et d'une créativité frappante, qui authentifient la vaste expérience, l'imagination et l'ingéniosité de leurs concepteurs. Music of the Skalne Podhale Region Manuel d'apprentissage musical est censé être un objet très estimé, admiré et chéri, remarquablement professionnel et innovant. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze intègre les meilleures pratiques de l'art, de la science, du design et de la technologie, et est excellent par son souci du détail. Music of the Skalne Podhale Region Manuel d'apprentissage musical satisfait admirablement les besoins, touche les désirs, charme les sentiments et attire la curiosité.

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

Unique Properties: The textbook prepared by Krzysztof Trebunia-Tutka is the first such comprehensive publication in Poland devoted to highlander music. They consist of 3 volumes: "A handful of theories" (the most substantively and visually diverse), "Finger notation" and "Music notation" as well as recordings with which people who want to learn the secrets of highlander music should become familiar with.

The graphics on the covers refer to the mountain horizon view and sound recording (recording the soundtrack in a music editing program). It is also an optical illusion of a reflection in the water (a reference to mountain lakes in which mountains "look at each other"), as well as a reflection of the notes: note and finger, which represent the same content in two different forms. Horizontal typography completes the division of the reflection and strengthens the game of associations.
The cover image is vivid, expressive. Strongly contrasting combination of intense green and deep black emphasizes the emotionality and energy of highlander music.
In volumes 2 and 3, color inversion was used, in volume 1 (theoretical), the form of a sketch / drawing / outline was used - in order to distinguish it from the materials for the practical learning of the game. Such a procedure makes it possible to refer indirectly to the outline of the theory.
Dimensions & Packaging: Format: 23,5 cm x 30,5 cm;
Number of pages: vol. 1: 88, vol. 2: 344, vol. 3: 300;
Cover: 73250 Brillance canvas, silkscreen;
End paper: Antalis PopSet Ultra Red 120 g/m2;
Inside paper: Alto Naturel vol. 1,5, 100 g/m2;
Inside print: vol. 1: offset 5+5 (186 U Pantone + CMYK), vol. 2: offset 2+2 (black + Pantone 583 U), vol. 3: offset 2+2 (black + Pantone 583 U);
Circulation: 1000;
sewn-glued binding;
red threads;
red elastic-belly band
Tags: music, tradition, mountains, music processing program, highlander, tatra, notes, music notes,
Production Technology: The title and graphics printed on covers are in the silk-screen technology.

The elastic belly band around the three-volume release evokes associations with a vertical line ("scale" - marker) in an audio processing program. Red color accents: threads, end paper and elastic contrast with the green and black of the covers, they are an additional portion of energy.

The use of raw linen with a strong weave and red threads is a reference to traditional highlander costumes.
Design Challenge: The publication is a specific anthology of the most important and beautiful highlander melodies and songs, often forgotten or rarely performed.
Inspiration: The aim of the graphic design was to translate the foundations of highlander traditions into modern design ideas.
The project priority was to show the "spirit of Polish mountains" and the energy of highlander music. The concept is a story intertwined from several threads that overlap and harmonize with the content on different levels.
Conditions: traditional Polish highlander (Tatra) music, energy, mountains’ landscape, music processing program.
Project Duration: 2019–2021; Kraków; Poland
Operation Flow: The publication is opened "flat", which ensures the comfort of using individual volumes while performing music.
Team Members: Aleksandra Toborowicz
Image Credits: Aleksandra Toborowicz – photos