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Episodic Urbanism
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Designed by
Stuart Geddes
Category
Best Designed Fully-Illustrated Book over $50
Year
2016
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

Episodic Urbanism is about a 20-year project by one architecture office, transforming the urban spaces of RMIT University’s main campus, a project where often things were removed and restored, rather than new things built. The book mirrors this restraint materially, structurally and tonally using its own language of paper, grids and typography. The book begins and ends with un-paginated photo essays, which creates a material symmetry continued throughout the book. Within these discrete material spaces, the typography and grids then play a sophisticated and gentle game of creating unexpected structural and poetic spaces for the content and reader.

Details
Dimensions
210 x 275 mm
No. pages
192
Credits
Internal Design
Stuart Geddes
Photography
Various
Illustration
Peter Elliott Architecture and Urban Design
Typesetting
Stuart Geddes
Printing
1010 Printing
Author
Peter Elliott Architecture and Urban Design