Catalog by ulli neutzling designbuero for Stiftung Buchkunst

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CLIENT

Stiftung Buchkun­st is respon­si­ble for over­see­ing the annu­al book design com­pe­ti­tion Best Book Design from all over the World. The inter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tion assess­es books which have pre­vi­ous­ly been judged and sin­gled out for mer­it by spe­cial­ist pan­els in their respec­tive coun­tries of origin.

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BRIEF

The doc­u­men­ta­tion for the award Best Book Design from all over the World was neglect­ed in for­mer years. We were asked to devel­op a cat­a­log con­cept that should rep­re­sent the award appro­pri­ate­ly and that makes use of col­or more intensively.

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APPROACH

Our cat­a­log con­cept fos­ters the view of the details: per­fect typog­ra­phy, sen­su­al papers and bind­ing mate­ri­als, great bind­ing and fin­ish­ing tech­niques. The fac­tu­al infor­ma­tion about the books lie on short­ened pages, thus pro­vid­ing its own infor­ma­tion lev­el. The cat­a­log itself meets the high­est require­ments of fine pho­tog­ra­phy, var­i­ous page dimen­sions, per­fect­ly print­ed, and sad­dle-stitched on fine uncoat­ed paper of dif­fer­ent weights.