About Furniture 书 by Karla Kocijan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 铁奖 in 印刷与出版媒体设计 Competition Category.

铁印刷· 2023

About Furniture 书

by Karla Kocijan

Client: Jesenski & Turk

A' Design Award 铁奖 Winner in 印刷 Category

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The Design

About About Furniture 书

关于克罗地亚家具的文献有很多，但其中大部分是面向专业读者的。《关于家具》一书的目的是创建一本综合手册，为学生和专家提供宝贵的资源。这本手册将提供有关家具的历史、分类和著名设计师的基本而相关的信息，使其成为那些寻求对该主题有基本了解的人经常参考的工具。所有图纸均由戴安娜·索科利奇 (Diana Sokolic) 手工绘制。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铁奖

About Furniture 书是 A' Design Award 铁奖得主，这是授予满足人们对设计精良的创作所期待的专业与工业要求的优良设计的声望认可。铁奖得主展现出其创作者的高超技艺、高度专业化、专家级的理解力和创造能力。预计About Furniture 书将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的创作，既实用又创新。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铁奖的设计整合了行业最佳实践，并拥有与专业知识和才华相结合的称职技术特性。About Furniture 书因其严谨而受到尊重，旨在提供有助于让世界变得更美好的生活品质改善。

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: The book is illustrated by hand with 140 illustrations which makes it unique since all the other books about furniture use photographs.
The book has four chapters: history of furniture, furniture in Croatia from 1945 till today, iconic world furniture designs and their authors, vocabulary of forgotten furniture names and a glossary of art history terms. The book is illustrated by hand with 140 illustrations which make it unique since all the other books about furniture use photographs.
Dimensions & Packaging: The book has 230 pages
Quantity printed: 700
Printer: offset
Typeface: Monserat, Raleway
Jacket printer: offset, color
Paper: Holmen 80g
Binder: hard cover
Size: 170 x 25 x 245 mm
Editor: Jesenski & Turk, Zagreb, Croatia
Tags: book, furniture, handbook
Production Technology: There were more than 300 drawings made by professional artist Diana Sokolic, but only 140 are used in the book in order to make it simple, short, and informative. Huge research was undertaken to present basic and relevant information about characteristics of the furniture history styles, authors and their works.
Design Challenge: Finding relevant information about women designers was the most challenging part of the research. Their work and lives are hidden under the names of factories or architects and their studios, especially in Croatia, where educated women designers worked for a monthly pay designing brilliant pieces under the name of the factory they worked for.
Research: Researching for the book was long and it took over 7 months since the goal was to give the most important information about the history of furniture and most relevant authors, especially highlighting the work of female authors who were working in big corporations or studios, anonymously until today.
Inspiration: There are many books about furniture in Croatia, but most of them are written for professional use. The idea was to fill the gap by making a handbook with the basic information, a book for students as well as scholars; the book that will be used often to get the first but relevant information about the history, types, or authors of furniture.
Project Duration: This project started in Zagreb, Croatia, during Covid-19 lockdown time - the ideal time for studying and writing the book in peace. It was finished the same year, but, due to import and printing problems caused by Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine - publishing was delayed until the end of 2022.
The book was published with the support of the Croatian Ministry of Culture.