Messing Around With Dimensions by Structuring a Book

Messing Around With Dimensions by Structuring a Book

Client: Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg (Germany)

For the first time in years, the academy planned to show insights into the departments' projects and excursions besides individual student work in their annual exhibition catalogue. My colleague Leonie and I thought up an almost impossible way to structure the academy's annual catalogue.

Team: Leonie Junkenitz & Johanna Kanzler (book concept & design)
Petra Meyer & Carina Essl (project management, editing),
Rubin Art, Hans Rubin (production)

Team: Leonie Junkenitz & Johanna Kanzler (book concept & design)
Petra Meyer & Carina Essl (project management, editing),
Rubin Art, Hans Rubin (production)
Client: Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg (Germany)

We made each department stick out like a bookmark. By placing the department's collaborative content on tilted pages, we created a catalogue easy to browse through. By chance, we constructed an impossible book, with a cover that looks always open, promoting the academy's openness. After some sketches, mini dummies and persuasive efforts, 600 copies were realized.

337 Students
16 Departments

337 Students
16 Departments

Every department's first page sticks out like a bookmark, making it easy to browse through the catalogue.

The department's collaborative content on tilted pages resembles an open book drawn in 2D.

Individual students' work is presented under their department's name on the blue bookmark like sticking out pages.

More Printed Matters We Made for the Academy of Fine Arts

More Printed Matters We Made for the Academy of Fine Arts

Leonie & I made more concepts for the Academy's printed matters: A sticky shiny calendar to mark your go-to events in your calendar right away — shiny because metallic shiny stuff makes your heart go puff!

Team: Leonie Junkenitz & Johanna Kanzler (concept & design),
Petra Meyer (project management, editing)

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