Material Effects
Material Effects
6th Marianne Brandt Award
Since 2000, the International Marianne Brandt Award has been asking how the design debates that influenced the historical Bauhaus and Bauhaus artist Marianne Brandt can be made productive today. In 2016, they invited young designers, artists and photographers to participate with works responding to the theme “Material Effects.” The catalogue brings together 60 works featured in an exhibition at the Saxon Museum of Industry Chemnitz and thematic essays incorporating those works into an extensive material discourse.
Our commission began with the design of the exhibition graphics. We developed an identity based on repetition, wordplay, and transparency using translucent paper for poster, flyer as well as parts of the catalogue. Shimmering through on their respective pages, it creates a density of text (and image) which blurs the idea of front and back. The cover features a dust jacket, folded in the American style and wrapped around a sewn-in softcover of 4 pages on either side. An exposed binding reveals the pattern and cross-section of the threads on the spine.
See the identity
Year: 2018
Client: Marianne Brandt Award
Publisher: jovis Verlag
Catalogue / Reader, 17 × 24 cm, 296 pages
In collaboration with Alessandro Carosso
Photography: Marcel Lunkwitz
Material Effects
Material Effects
6th Marianne Brandt Award
Since 2000, the International Marianne Brandt Award has been asking how the design debates that influenced the historical Bauhaus and Bauhaus artist Marianne Brandt can be made productive today. In 2016, they invited young designers, artists and photographers to participate with works responding to the theme “Material Effects.” The catalogue brings together 60 works featured in an exhibition at the Saxon Museum of Industry Chemnitz and thematic essays incorporating those works into an extensive material discourse.
Our commission began with the design of the exhibition graphics. We developed an identity based on repetition, wordplay, and transparency using translucent paper for poster, flyer as well as parts of the catalogue. Shimmering through on their respective pages, it creates a density of text (and image) which blurs the idea of front and back. The cover features a dust jacket, folded in the American style and wrapped around a sewn-in softcover of 4 pages on either side. An exposed binding reveals the pattern and cross-section of the threads on the spine.
See the identity
Year: 2018
Client: Marianne Brandt Award
Publisher: jovis Verlag
Catalogue / Reader, 17 × 24 cm, 296 pages
In collaboration with Alessandro Carosso
Photography: Marcel Lunkwitz