Task
Present the work of a practitioner, or a specific project, which deals with ONE of the themes from the morning
presentation i.e POD books, Hybrid Books, Artists’ Books, Bookworks. Students to add this as a blog post and present it during week 5 tutorials as a mini-presentation. You can include images if you like but not anything that I have already shown you, 250 words approximately for the blog post.
Artists’ Books
Cover Cover celebrates the 25th anniversary of Viktor&Rolf, not merely by depicting their collections and character, but by embodying them. Boom’s book is divided into eight-page gatefolds, each representing an era, collection or moment in the designers’ career, illustrated with images by renowned photographers such as Tim Walker and Inez & Vinoodh, as well as sketches and shots from the catwalk. The hand-sewn book moves back in time. Each gatefold is arranged chronologically and made with papers that start super-fine and become thicker as the reader moves through the designers’ history.
The sculptural book is dressed in a bright pink acetate jacket and stamped with a V&R seal. Cover Cover mirrors the spectacle of Viktor&Rolf in all aspects; every image in the book is inverted and reproduced as a negative, engendering a kind of distortive inventiveness that marks many of Viktor&Rolf’s shows and pieces.
A partnership between two experimental designers to transform the three-dimensional into the two-dimensional without losing the essence of the art. Each project has been reimagined in Cover Cover, transforming a fashion universe into one of graphic design. With each read, there is more to discover. As the book declares in the front cover: ‘This book invites you to discover the method in the madness.’