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Force Fields: Art, Architecture and Audience
  • Commended

Designed by
Hope Lumsden-Barry, Dennis Grauel and Ryley Lawson
Category
Best Designed Independent Book
Year
2021
Publisher
Kyneton Contemporary Inc.
Design Rationale

Force Fields documents the inaugural Kyneton Contemporary Art Triennial. The book needed to instil a sense of place and time, and speak to the coming together of community (referred to by the publishers as a ‘force field effect’). The designers documented Kyneton’s vernacular architecture and typography. This informed the layout (which has intentional moments of spaciousness and tightness) and a bespoke typeface developed for this title by Dennis Grauel, Kyneton Art Grotesque. The grainy, undulating textures used throughout mimic iron shavings suspended in a magnetic field: gesturing at the book’s title and Kyneton’s industrial, metallurgical history.

Details
Dimensions
175 x 240 mm
No. pages
144
Special finishes
Layflat limbound binding with 150mm flaps, Black + PMS Bright Red U spot on the cover (on pink Junju Kishu woodfree stock). 48pp on pink stock(Junju Kishu woodfree), 96 on white (Gold East matt art paper),
Credits
Internal Design
Hope Lumsden-Barry, Dennis Grauel and Ryley Lawson
Typesetting
Hope Lumsden-Barry, Dennis Grauel and Ryley Lawson
Printing
1010 Printing
Author
Kyneton Contemporary Art Inc.