Architectural Traces Livro by Stjepko Rosin

Architectural Traces Livro by Stjepko Rosin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Ferro in Design de Média Impressa e Publicada Competition Category.

FerroImpressão· 2022

Architectural Traces Livro

by Stjepko Rosin

Client: Naklada Boskovic

A' Design Award de Ferro Winner in Impressão Category

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The Design

About Architectural Traces Livro

Vestígios Arquitetónicos é um livro sobre a obra de um arquiteto dálmata. A capa apresenta um lado inclinado que, visto à distância, se assemelha a um telhado com as típicas telhas romanas. Visto de perto, o padrão revela-se como imagens de uma ressonância magnética real da coluna vertebral do arquiteto. A ilusão de ótica remete para a realidade oculta e dolorosa por detrás dos edifícios admirados. O livro mede 270 mm por 270 mm por 35 mm e é impresso em papel offset, com encadernação cosida rígida e sem sobrecapa. Durante a utilização, a capa assume uma posição oblíqua aberta.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Ferro

Architectural Traces Livro conquistou o A' Design Award de Ferro, um reconhecimento prestigiado atribuído a bons designs que cumprem os requisitos profissionais e industriais esperados de criações bem concebidas. Os vencedores do Ferro demonstram grande habilidade, elevada especialização, compreensão especializada e capacidade criativa dos seus criadores. Espera-se que Architectural Traces Livro seja uma criação muito considerada, admirada e estimada, prática e inovadora. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Ferro integra as melhores práticas do setor e tem características técnicas competentes associadas a conhecimento especializado e talento. Pela sua minúcia, Architectural Traces Livro merece respeito e destina-se a proporcionar melhorias na qualidade de vida que ajudam a tornar o mundo num lugar melhor.

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
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Image #5: Photographer Stjepko Rosin, 2021