Architectural Traces 書籍 by Stjepko Rosin

Architectural Traces 書籍 by Stjepko Rosin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in 印刷・出版メディアデザイン Competition Category.

鉄印刷· 2022

Architectural Traces 書籍

by Stjepko Rosin

Client: Naklada Boskovic

A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in 印刷 Category

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The Design

About Architectural Traces 書籍

『Architectural Traces（建築の痕跡）』は、ダルマチア地方出身の建築家の仕事を紹介する書籍である。カバーには傾斜した側面が設けられ、遠くから見るとローマ瓦を用いた典型的な屋根のように見える。近づいて見ると、その模様は実際に撮影された建築家の脊椎の磁気共鳴画像であることが明らかになる。この錯視は、賞賛される建築物の背後に隠された痛みを伴う現実を示唆している。判型は270mm×270mm×35mmで、オフセット用紙に印刷され、堅牢な糸綴じ製本を採用し、外装カバーは付されていない。使用時にはカバーが開いた斜めの状態を保つ設計となっている。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鉄賞

Architectural Traces 書籍は、よく設計された創造物に期待される専門的・産業的要件を満たす優れたデザインに授与される、権威ある評価である A' Design Award 鉄賞の受賞作品です。鉄賞の受賞作品は、制作者の高い技量、高度な専門性、専門家としての理解、創造的な能力を示しています。Architectural Traces 書籍は、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される、実用的で革新的な創造物であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 鉄賞を受賞したデザインは、業界のベストプラクティスを統合し、ノウハウと才能に結びついた有能な技術的特性を備えています。Architectural Traces 書籍は、その徹底ぶりで尊敬され、世界をより良い場所にするための生活の質の向上をもたらすよう設計されています。

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