Catalogue of Incunabula Katalog by Aleksandra Toborowicz is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Kumush Mukofoti in Bosma va Nashr Etilgan Media Dizayni Competition Category.
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Catalogue of Incunabula Katalog
Client: National Library of Poland / Biblioteka Narodowa
A' Design Award Kumush Mukofoti Winner in Bosma Category
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The Design
About Catalogue of Incunabula Katalog
Inkunabulalar katalogi — bu Polsha Milliy kutubxonasida saqlanayotgan o'n beshinchi asr bosma nashrlari to'plamini hujjatlashtiruvchi ikki jildlik kitob. Dizayn ilk Uyg'onish davri bosmasi va tipografiyasi uslubiga tayanadi. Katta bosh harflar asosiy vizual mavzuni tashkil etadi, muqova sarlavhasi esa ikki rangli tipografik bosma orqali yaratilgan. Muqovalarda Uyg'onish davri to'ri ko'r bosim (blind debossing) usulida naqshlangan. Matn eski uslubdagi serifli Adobe Jenson Pro shriftida terilgan. Muqova qog'ozi paxtadan ishlangan bo'lib, dag'al fakturaga ega. Tikilgan muqova qalin jildlarni o'qish uchun oson ochilishiga imkon beradi.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Kumush Mukofoti
Catalogue of Incunabula Katalog A' Design Award Kumush Mukofotining g‘olibi bo‘lib, bu go‘zal, ulug‘vor va ta’sirchan eng yuqori darajadagi dizaynlarga beriladigan favqulodda nufuzli e’tirofdir. Kumush g‘oliblari o‘z dizaynerlarining ajoyib mahorati, iste’dodi va o‘tkirligini ko‘rsatuvchi juda yorqin va o‘ta ijodiy asarlardir. Catalogue of Incunabula Katalog ajoyib, namunaviy, diqqatga sazovor darajada kasbiy va chuqur innovatsion asar bo‘lishi kutiladi. A' Design Award Kumush Mukofotini qo‘lga kiritgan ushbu dizayn san’at, fan, dizayn va texnologiya chegaralarini kengaytiruvchi juda e’tiborga loyiq, tahsinga sazovor ixtirodir. Catalogue of Incunabula Katalog ko‘pchilik havas qiladigan, istaklarni uyg‘otadigan, ijobiy tuyg‘ular olib keladigan hamda hayrat va ajablanish uyg‘otadigan ijoddir.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The idea of the project refers to the style of the first Renaissance prints and typography - both in the selection of materials: elegant, hand-made cover paper and inside pages, by referring to the typography – large initials, which are the leitmotif of the project, as well as the technique of two-color typographic printing in the title of the cover. The subtle blind debossing of the Renaissance grid adds elegance to the design and strengthens historical references. An oldstyle and serif Adobe Jenson Pro font used in publication also refers to the first text face cut in Venice by Nicolas Jenson around 1470. The burgundy color of the elements organizing the publication (initials debossed on the covers and main inserts) and the accents (highlighting the most important sections, footnotes, references to footnotes) strongly contrast with the black of the body of the text. The paper used for the cover production – Arches White 400 g/m2 – is the highest quality product made of 100% cotton. Thanks to traditional production methods, the paper has a rough and harmonious texture, similar to hand-made paper. The typographic layout also refers to historical solutions from the times of incunabula.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- binding: sewn-glued binding (otabind)
format: 168 x 240 mm
number of pages: 1080 (vol. 1: 704, vol. 2: 392)
printed by: Marceli Sp. z o.o., Warszawa
circulation: 250 - Tags
- catalogue, incunabula, publication, book, old-style, initials, typography, Renaissance, blind deboss, letterpress, renaissance grid,
- Production Technology
- cover: Arches White 400 g/m2; dry embossing – lines, title text – typographic printing
cover print: 2+1
printed on: Munken Premium Cream 1.3, 90 g/m2
inside print: 2+2 (czarny + Pantone 199 U)
red threads
typefaces: Adobe Jenson Pro, Incunables - Design Challenge
- The biggest challenge was to design the layout – a complex, specialized and multi-part hierarchy and typographic layout, as well as a very voluminous text material while limiting the page limit.
- Research
- The Catalogue of Incunabula in the National Library of Poland continues the tradition of research into the oldest surviving examples of printing, begun by Kazimierz Piekarski before the Second World War. It was compiled by Michał Spandowski in collaboration with Slawomir Szyller. Descriptions of the bindings are by Maria Brynda. The National Library of Poland has a cooperation agreement with the Berlin State Library dating from 2011, thanks to which the Catalogue has been reviewed by Dr Falk Eisermann, head of the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (Union Catalogue of Incunabula) in Berlin, whose division is the leading body dealing with the global bibliography of fifteenth-century prints. Paul Schweitzer-Martin, expert in incunabula at the University of Heidelberg, helped produce the English version. It was decided to publish in English due to the international nature of research in this field and so that the Catalogue would reach a wider audience.
The Catalogue describes incunabula from a number of important historical collections, including the famous Biblioteka Ordynacji Zamojskiej (Count Zamoyski Family Library) and the Count Tarnowski Family Library in Dzikow. It includes descriptions of objects saved from the pre-War collection of the National Library, almost completely destroyed following the Warsaw Uprising. The Catalogue further adds to our bibliographic knowledge of fifteenth-century printing by presenting a number of unique items not covered in the existing literature. It also contains specialised descriptions of the medieval manuscripts that are bound together with the incunabula, and selected post-incunabula.
The second volume of the Catalogue contains a number of research tools making it easier to use the over 1,000 individual descriptions in the first volume. In addition, two provenance indexes provide extensive information on the former owners of the incunabula, with individual owners listed separately from institutions such as libraries, monasteries and churches. - Inspiration
- The two-volume "Catalogue of Incunabula in the National Library of Poland" presents the collection of 15th-century prints held by the BNP, the sixth-largest such collection in Poland (1,131 copies of 1,034 printed editions). Perhaps the greatest achievement of this tradition so far was the publication of the central catalogue of all incunabula in Poland; now it is the turn of the collection of the National Library, presented here in great detail.
The idea of the project refers to the style of the first Renaissance prints and typography. - Project Duration
- year: 2019–2020, Kraków–Warszawa
- Operation Flow
- The publication, which consists of many pages, was prepared in the otabind binding technique, which allows for easy opening of the book and makes it easier to read.
- Team Members
- Design: Aleksandra Toborowicz
Typesetting: Katarzyna Niewczas
Project manager: Monika Michowicz
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