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Give Get Design

Give Get Design featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Vicereines of Ireland

This book tells the untold story of a group of overlooked women in Irish history. The design process was integral to telling their story. The design aimed to capture the rich material world of these women, but also to reflect the humanity of their actions. The making of the book was a dialogue between the written content, the visual material discovered during the research, and current design practices. While its colour palette and end papers were inspired by original objects owned by the women, a contemporary design approach has resulted in a bold reimagining of the academic art history book.

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Time Capsule

The book is about the history of graphic design. Designer want to engage audience in a more dynamic narrative experience and help them at the same time to understand the book more easily. In order to hold audience's interest, adding interactiveness to the book, designer make the book look like have long history as cultural relics, this book attempt to guide the audience to wear dust prevention gloves and take up brush and magnifier, act like archaeologist to research the history. It is a book that requires the audience's actions and also to be handled and experienced.

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Architectural Traces

On the spine of the Dalmatian architect that has not bent in front of insatiable investors, which are consistency, stress, and years spent in a chair, the designer notices some different architectural, more painful, traces. Looking from a distance at the sloping side of the cover, they resemble a roof with typical 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 you approach the book. They reveal the hidden, painful reality of a responsible architect, the one behind the buildings people admire.

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Pool

Designer redesigns the look of algae with the Chinese character, and combined with numbers of algae on the cover, leading readers to associate with the topic immediately. Doodles of various types of algae are coated with translucent varnish which creates senses of watery reflection. They extended through the whole cover to create an image of pond that full of algae. Also, a small matching quiz is designed on the inner cover for readers to get to know the names of algae.

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Defy

During the process of designing the cover for Two Cheers for Anarchism. It provided a chance for designer to reconsider and to revalue the relation between oneself and social systems. By using certain symbolic objects into the design, not only to create a shared life experience towards Anarchism, but also to interpret a way of perspective of Taiwanese folk culture.

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WWI Trail

Sui Camminamenti della Grande Guerra is a 96 pages outdoor guide book. It's a 165x235 millimeter hard-cover book with a paper pocket where is folded the map of the trail. The descriptions of trail's stages are combined with modern and colored images of the area. Each chapter has an infographic with the information of the stage like length, elevation and time. Also, several double pages with black-and-white old pictures, poems and author's thoughts, separates chapters. The color palette (shades of dark green) and the main fonts (typewriting style) recalls an old fashioned military imaginary.

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