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When a Still Painting Shows us that we are Moving
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Designed by
Stuart Geddes
Category
Best Designed Independent Book
Year
2017
Publisher
Surpllus

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 is part artist’s book, part exhibition catalogue, presenting and discussing a range of recent work by artist David Thomas. The design of the book uses a subtle and understated typographic language and a supple and casual materiality to explore ideas of impermanence, hybridity, and ad hoc minimalism. Thomas’s oeuvre operates on the level of both method and sensibility, to engage with this, I echoed the artist’s use of the brushstroke as evidence of the labour, with a publication that I partly printed, bound and collated by hand.

Details
Dimensions
170 x 240 mm
No. pages
116
Special finishes
This book is a material assemblage, printed with a mixture of conventional offset printing, newsprinting and Risograph printing.
Credits
Internal Design
Stuart Geddes
Typesetting
Stuart Geddes
Printing
PrintGraphics, Newsprinters and Stuart Geddes
Author
David Thomas