Category: Book

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In »Mary« Swedish novelist Aris Fioretos tells the story of a woman arrested in Greece in November 1973, the time of Greece’s military dictatorship, and her experiences with hunger, cold and torture in the secret police’s prisons.

The motive of the pomegranate on the cover and fly leaf of the book symbolizes Mary’s rich and abundant personality beneath her life of hardship.

Portfolio / Range of Services: design cover and fly leaf, typesetting concept

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The book series »Portraits of Forceful Women« published by the Knesebeck Verlag introduces the unusual biographies of daring women, women who dedicated their lives to animal science, or women without whom many artists might have remained unknown.

The catalogues contain many previously unpublished photographs. gewerkdesign was granted plenty of artistic freedom for the design, with only the format and type of paper set in advance.

Portfolio / Range of Services: cover designs, jackets, titles and flyleafs, selection of images, typesetting and colour concept, final artwork

Hintergründe

For this book project, the journalist Tobias Wenzel travelled to 39 exotic and unexpected places. In front of the sometimes majestic, sometimes scary scenery he talked with famous authors about life and death.
These vastly different encounters with authors like Jonathan Franzen, Annie Proulx, Hallgrímur Helgason, Jussi Adler-Olsen or DBC Pierre were combined with Wenzel’s large black-and-white photographs in a elaborately designed book. The book was published to accompany an exhibition of Wenzel’s photographs at the Rostock Art Exhibition Hall and the Museum for Sepulchral Culture in Kassel.

Portfolio / Range of Services: book design, layout and typesetting, final artwork, supervision of the production

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In the form of personal narratives, Eva Sichelschmidts’s biography »Allure of the Feather. A Life as a Fashionista, Muse, Style Icon« gives an account of the hat designer Fiona Bennett’s unconventional lifestyle in the midst of former West Berlin’s turbulent creative scene.

The book contains ca. 130 photographs, partly from Bennett’s personal archive and party taken for the book by famous photographers like Joachim Gern or Ulrike Schamoni. In spite of the many images, Fiona Bennett preferred a more modest book design in the style of a novel or diary to the elaborate style of a coffee-table book.

Portfolio / Range of Services: book design, layout and typesetting, final artwork, supervision of the production

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gewerkdesign’s creation of cp03 was initiated by the Berlin Congress Center bcc, who needed a functional, durable catering porcelain for hosting large events. For creating the porcelain gewerkdesign first developed a metric system, that took into account the demands on gastronomy dishes during all phases of the catering process. The congress center’s famous architecture from the 1960s also played a major roll in the porcelain’s design.
The licence for manufacturing cp08 was issued to the company Seltmann Weiden in 2011, who accompanied the rollout and presentation of the porcelain with a booklet created by gewerkdesign.
cp08 is a listed trademark of the of the bcc and gewerkdesign.

Portfolio / Range of Services: layout, image selection, typesetting and final artwork

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gewerkdesign created the catalogue’s cover, its basic layout and all printed materials for the special exhibition »Our Black Forest – Romanticism and Reality« at the Augustinermuseums in Freiburg.

The exhibition presents paintings, photographs, and religious objects from the Augustinermuseum’s large Black Forest collection in a modern and humorous way. The exhibition’s unconventional corporate design refers to stereotypes about the Black Forest (like fir cones or the traditional Bollenhut) and matches it with stereotypical expressions like: »Idyllic. Beauty.«, »True. Authenticity.« oder »Wild. Romantic.«

Portfolio / Range of Services: brand design of the exhibition, catalogue design, concept and planning, layout, supervision of the production, final artwork

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The catalogue »Pills and Pipettes – The chemical pharmaceutical industry as exemplified by Schering« supplements the exhibition at the German Museum of Technology and provides the reader with an overview of the various different perspectives involved.

With critical essays, historical photographs and infographics, the book encompasses everything from historical development to crucial current topics like the search for alternatives to animal experimentation, the supply of medicines worldwide and advances in the field of modern biotechnology.

Portfolio / Range of Services: catalogue design, layout and typesetting, final artwork, supervision of the production

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In the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, the Swedish author Aris Fioretos illustrates the historic and biographic context of Nelly Sachs’s poems, presenting numerous previously unpublished photographs and documents.

Nelly Sachs, who in 1940 fled from Berlin to Stockholm on one of the last passenger planes, was awarded to Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966. A large portion of her poetic output was written in a 4 m2 alcove within her apartment in Stockholm. The furniture of Sachs’s apartment are stored at the Royal Swedish Library and were documented and photographed for the catalogue.

Portfolio / Range of Services: catalogue and print design of all graphic products