Vicereines of Ireland Mosebetsi wa Mantlha: Buka ya Thuto by Jurga Rakauskaite-Larkin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award in Moralo wa Kgatiso le Media e Phatlaladitsweng Competition Category.
TšepeKgatiso· 2022
Vicereines of Ireland Mosebetsi wa Mantlha: Buka ya Thuto
Client: The Office of Public Works
Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award Winner in Kgatiso Category
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About Vicereines of Ireland Mosebetsi wa Mantlha: Buka ya Thuto
Mongolo wa Buka: Vicereines of Ireland ke buka ya thuto e buang ka sehlopha sa basadi ba neng ba sa hlokomelwe historing ya Ireland. Moralo o tshwara lefatshe le ruileng la dintho tsa basadi bana hape o bonahatsa botho ba diketso tsa bona. Mmala o kgethwang o tswa ho ditshasi tsa pinki e fifetseng tse ntseng di phela sepetlele sa mmala sa mosadi e mong wa bao. Diqweqwe tsa qetellong di bululetswe ke buka ya kgale ya Setaliana e neng e na le mmala wa marbole, tsa etswa ka mokgwa wa setso wa "spot marbling" o ileng wa fetoswa ka mokgwa wa dijithale hamorao. Foreime ya kgauta e otletswe hodima sekwahelo se thata ka mora setshwantsho sa sekwahelo, hore mosadi a bontshwang a tsohe pele.
The Recognition
About the Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award
Vicereines of Ireland Mosebetsi wa Mantlha: Buka ya Thuto ke mohapi oa Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award, kananelo e hlomphehang e fuoang meralo e metle e finyellang litlhoko tsa porofeshenale le tsa indasteri tse lebelletsoeng ho lintho tse hlahisitsoeng tse entsoeng hantle. Bahapi ba Tšepe ba bontša bokhoni bo boholo, bokhethehi bo phahameng, kutloisiso ea litsebi le bokhoni ba boqapi ba baqapi ba bona. Vicereines of Ireland Mosebetsi wa Mantlha: Buka ya Thuto e lebelletsoe ho ba ntho e hlahisitsoeng e hlomphuoang haholo, e ratoang le e ratehang, e sebetsang le e nang le mehopolo e mecha. Moralo ona o hapileng Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award o kenyelletsa mekhoa e metle ka ho fetesisa ea indasteri mme o na le litšobotsi tsa theknoloji tse nang le bokhoni tse amanang le tsebo le talenta. Ka lebaka la botlalo ba eona, Vicereines of Ireland Mosebetsi wa Mantlha: Buka ya Thuto e tšoanelehela tlhompho mme e entsoe ho fana ka ntlafatso ea bophelo e thusang ho etsa hore lefatše le be sebaka se molemo.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Aim of the design was to capture rich material world, and also to reflect these women's humanity. The choice of a simple cover rather than grand portrait, that mainly appear on the covers of art history books, reflects this approach. The gilded frame that usually surrounds many portraits is placed not around the portrait image but behind it, on the hard cover, allowing the image of the woman to come forward. It encourages reader to look beyond the superficial image of women as decorative partners to powerful men.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Size:
21.46 x 2.79 x 24.51 cm portrait,
Cover:
Hardcover with Luxor 220 Gold foil block on the front and spine
Dust jacket with Matt Black foil block on the front and spine,
Printed: 4/4 CMYK,
Binding:
Hardcover, head and tail gold bands, 2.5 mm boards, thread sewn,
Black silk ribbon,
Repro:
Images supplied digitally, image and colour corrections,
One set of digital colour proofs - Tags
- book, irishdesign, irishculture,
- Production Technology
- The making of the book was a dialogue between the written content, the visual material discovered during the research, and current design practices. One of the key sources used in the writing of the book was an old Italian marbled notebook that belonged to one of the women. This inspired the creation of artwork for the book's end papers. The book's colour palette was sent to an artist, who created six bespoke patterns using a traditional spot marbling technique. After selecting the most suitable, the pattern was digitally manipulated to give this traditional pattern a contemporary look.
- Design Challenge
- As an academic book, there were specific design conventions which had to be followed. The challenge was to strike a balance between meeting these criteria and reflecting the seriousness of the book's content, while also pushing the creative boundaries to modernise the image of the art history book. A bold colour palette, unexpected cover image (and application of it), use of a ribbon bookmark inspired by the diaries of the vicereines and the choice of contemporary serif typography all helped to overcome this challenge.
- Research
- The research for the design grew out of several years of original research for the book. This research was carried out in public and private archives across Ireland, Britain and the USA, and attracted funding from bodies including the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. The main sources were the letters and diaries of these women, as well as their private collections of textiles, sketches and personal objects. One of the most inspiring of these objects was the paint palette of one of the women featured in the book. The book's colour scheme was taken from the blush pink paint colours that have survived on the palette since the 1780s.
- Inspiration
- The book tells the untold story of a group of overlooked women in Irish history. As the wives of the countrys rulers, they were the female faces of the British administration in Ireland before independence. Even though their privileged world was one of shimmering fabrics, sparkling pearls and blossoming flowers, many of these women worked hard to relieve crushing poverty, promote Irish fashion and mitigate injustices. Despite their pioneering efforts, they have long been almost entirely forgotten in Irish history. Their story, and the value of telling it for the first time, inspired the project.
- Project Duration
- Project started in 2019 and was finished in 2021 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Team Members
- Editor: Myles Campbell
Project Manager: Mary Heffernan
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Printed: Kopa Print - Image Credits
- Image #1 Unknown artist, The Right Hon. The Countess of Buckinghamshire (detail), 1778. Reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland
Image #2 Ausra Lazauskiene, Marbling artist
Image #4 Robert French (photographed by), The vicereine’s boudoir at the Viceregal Lodge, Dublin, Reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland.
Image #5 After Sir Thomas Lawrence, Lady Henrietta Cole, Lady Grantham, later Countess de Grey, National Trust, Florence Court, County Fermanagh
Henri Gascar, Frances Talbot (née Jennings), Duchess of Tyrconnell, Bridgeman Images.
Maria Phipps, Countess of Mulgrave, later Marchioness of Normanby
Montego Bay, Jamaica, Photograph by Scott Wicking, reproduced courtesy of the Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby.
Photographer: Kevin Fox, 'We Shoot'
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