Book Design

Explore 13 award-winning designs tagged Book Design on Give Get Design.

Designer / Brand: Aurimas Mickus Design: Book Design Tag: Print

Hill of Owls

The designer aimed for the book not only to remind of the past, but also to reflect the present, so the bright orange and black colours was chosen, which is a symbol of energy, creativity, and the thematic colour of the present institution at the premises. The book is designed in a minimalistic way while the sleeve itself has no title, only the period of time and a stylized owl encoded on its front, which is a symbolic way of marking the centenary and school location. Classic printing technologies, such as offset printing and hot stamp foiling, was used to achieve the result.

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Designer / Brand: Vilius Dringelis Design: Book Design Tag: Print

Art and Us

Art and Us is a book that presents selected works from the collection of an art foundation. The main part shows only images of the works, while a separate small booklet, held in a pocket at the back, describes each work by page number. Every page carries original hand drawn textures, so the book recalls an artist sketchbook. The soft cover is made of transparent PVC with silk-screen printing, and kettle stitching leaves the binding visible. Three papers are used, including translucent sheets and rough sheets for exhibition documentation.

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Designer / Brand: Qian Wenwen Design: Book Design Tag: Print

Nua Calendars

This book is based on the unique position of Nanjing University of the Art (NUA) in the history of Chinese art education and cultural development. It aims to present a comprehensive overview of the school's history and the achievements of its teachers and students. It selects important historical documents, works by teachers and students, and utilizes various threads to highlight NUA's role as a pioneer in higher art education in modern China. It utilizes off-white artistic paper and adopts the format of an old-fashioned calendar, presenting a unique texture reminiscent of that era.

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Designer / Brand: Yunsik Son Design: Book Design Tag: Print

World Vision Organization Overview

World Vision Organization Overview is a book that presents the seventy-year history and the projects of an international aid organization. The design concept is Belief, Unity, Integration, Life and Dream, summarized as BUILD. On the cover, typography stacks these letters into a clear graphic element, applied with orange hot foil stamping. Transparent film printed by silk screen and perforated pages between the chapters reveal the faces of children. The book measures 210 by 210 millimeters, has a matte-coated cover and contains 112 pages.

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Designer / Brand: Sunghoon Kim Design: Book Design Tag: Print

87MM Brand Story

87MM is a representative fashion brand in Korea that creates everyday culture through sense and wit. Since its launch in 2011, it has been designed to tell the story of the past decade to the 87MM-loving public through Moment by Moment, We Say No Concept But Good Sense, a brand with 10 years of records. This will serve to communicate more closely with the young Korean public who like 87MM and are enthusiastic about it through the story of two founders as well as the 87MM brand story.

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Designer / Brand: Sunghoon Kim Design: Book Design Tag: Print

Museum Hanmi Exhibition

He designed a photo collection of "Inside Out, A History of Korean Photography 1929-1982", which is the opening exhibition of the Museum Hanmi Exhibition. As a historical exhibition that looks back on the past 50 years of Korean photography, he follows in the footsteps of what institutional conditions Korean photography made history from 1929 to 1982. Along with the exhibition, the book will help follow the footsteps of Korean photography under what institutional conditions it has made history and will be a valuable opportunity to establish Korea's photography history.

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Designer / Brand: Yiwen Zhang Design: Book Design Tag: Print

Rhythmic

Rhythmic is a book that studies the positive influence of punk culture on mental health. The design is based on the punk values of do it yourself, rebellion and self-expression, and it forms a coherent musical narrative through a clear visual language. Red, black and white are used as the main colours. Fonts and graphics are placed in a stable grid to suggest short formats and fast tempos. The book measures 210 by 140 millimetres and has 92 pages. Rhythmic is offered as an ebook and as a hardcover edition with butterfly-fold binding. A bright silver card highlights the central pages.

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$Refracting Reality Book Design$

Designer / Brand: Ching-Fa Lung Design: Book Design Tag: Print

Refracting Reality

Refracting Reality is a book about light and human perception. The book explores four characteristics of light: refraction, reflection, diffraction and interference. These qualities are expressed through typography and images across 368 pages. Coated and uncoated papers were selected to support different impressions of light. A solid prism is held in the book spine and can be removed by the reader. With the prism, readers can observe the behavior of light directly and interact with the printed images.

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Designer / Brand: Sunghoon Kim Design: Book Design Tag: Print

The Journey of Arita

A typographic design book with various stories including the importance in the development of Korean terminology and collaboration between designers. The book The Journey of Arita covers everything related to the Arita font, which has long been veiled, encompassing how the corporate typefaces were born, the story behind the font design, cases where these typefaces were used, interviews with 14 of the designers involved in the design per font, documentary photographs showing the process of creating typefaces, and products and books that use the Arita font.

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Designer / Brand: Sunghoon Kim Design: Book Design Tag: Print

Josef Koudelka Gypsies

Josef Kudelka, a world-renowned photographer, has held his photo exhibitions in many countries around the world. After a long wait, a gypsy-themed Kudelka exhibition was finally held in Korea, and his photo book was made. As it was the first exhibition in Korea, there was a request from the author that he wanted to make a book so that he could feel Korea. Hangeul and Hanok are Korean letters and architecture that represent Korea. Text refers to the mind and architecture means the form. Inspired by these two elements, wanted to design a way to express Korea's characteristics.

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Designer / Brand: Sunghoon Kim Design: Book Design Tag: Print

Kang Yoonsung

The book commemorates the retirement of Kang Yoonsung, a graphic designer and university professor. Since ancient times, there has been a custom in Korea to make rainbow rice cakes on auspicious occasions such as 100 days, 1st birthday, marriage, and 60th birthday. He hoped that retirement would be a feast day, not a sad day, so the concept of the book became rainbow rice cake. The book was composed of letters from 60 colleagues and disciples from Korea, China and Japan, and design work by Kang Yoonsung. The book was designed using colored paper to express the rainbow rice cake.

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Designer / Brand: Yuchen Chen Design: Book Design Tag: Print

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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