CATEGORY

Digital

RANK


PRODUCTION DETAILS

Quantity

300

Page Count

135

Number of Colors

CMYK

Special Techniques

Binding

Screw-post

Dimensions

1.75 × 9 × 1.5

Paper Stock

Interior Sappi Flo Cardstock
Endpapers Mohawk Loop Feltmark, Coco


DESIGN CREDITS

Designer

Sam Holleran

Photographers

Awol Erizku, Madison Watt


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LINKS

The Cooper Union
Tri-Lon Color Graphics

Yearbook for The Cooper Union by Sam Holleran
Yearbook for The Cooper Union by Sam Holleran
Yearbook for The Cooper Union by Sam Holleran


CLIENT

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a privately funded college in New York, NY. Founded by inventor, industrialist, and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.


BRIEF

The Cooper Union senior council wanted a yearbook that would be novel in form and feel celebratory and fun (the typical cloth-bound yearbook is pretty tired). It was also key that it maintain dignity and gravity because it’s an object that alumni will, hopefully, show to their spouses, children, and grandchildren.


APPROACH

The challenge in designing the book was to make a product that united a very unique and multifarious student group. I choose to do that literally by making a book that can fan and display every student at once, and figuratively, by engaging the classmates in collaborative photography sessions where they learned a great deal about each other in the process. The information that appears in the book is minimal (name, concentration, and hometown) but the exchange that went on during the photography and input sessions that developed this book was major.

PRODUCTION LESSONSThe challenge in designing the book was to make a product that united a very unique and multifarious student group. I chose to do that literally by making a book that can fan and display every student at once and figuratively, by engaging the classmates in collaborative photography sessions where they learned a great deal about each other in the process. The information that appears in the book is minimal (name, concentration, and hometown) but the exchange that went on during the photography and input sessions that developed this book was major.

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