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Building a Culture
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Designed by
Stuart Geddes
Category
Best Designed Non-Fiction Book
Year
2021
Publisher
Uro Publications

About the Designer

Stuart Geddes is a graphic designer and occasional publisher, mostly of books, and occasionally other kinds of projects (magazines and journals, exhibitions and websites). He also co-publishes/edits/designs/prints motorcycle magazine Head Full of Snakes, and is an industry fellow, researcher and PhD candidate at RMIT University.

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Design Rationale

This book emerged from a lecture by Emeritus Professor Leon van Schaik, on more than thirty years of pioneering work at RMIT University. The book reflects the dual purposes of the lecturer: part essay on architectural education, part biographical slideshow in a darkened room, tracing his youth in Apartheid South Africa, via London and then to Melbourne. The book materially echoes a previous book for van Schaik: they share a size, binding and paper; each is jacketed, but in different materials. Both balance a typographic and compositional tension between the essayistic and the conversational, appearing as a loose pair.

Details
Dimensions
170 x 240 mm
No. pages
144
Credits
Internal Design
Stuart Geddes
Typesetting
Stuart Geddes
Printing
1010 Printing
Author
Leon van Schaik