Leather: 12 years spring // Traditional and conceptual books
The publication is dedicated to the exhibition «Otepel», an era of the Soviet 1950s and 1960s, which is regarded as the most important political, social and cultural project in the history of the USSR, as one of the «great Utopies» of the twentieth century, which was carried out in parallel with democratic transformations and cultural revolutions in Western Europe and the United States.
(1) TRADITIONAL DATA
The strip is divided into six columns and eight lines. The main complete text begins to fill in the top third of the grid, leaving the upper airspace under the headings, notes and signature of the photographs. The placement of photographs in the mock-up will follow the same principle as the Integrated Text.
(2) CONCEPTUAL DATA
The concept of the book is that of post-Staleen ideological warming: it replaces strict visual designs and socio-political thinking with abstract, biomorphic forms, the reflections of which we can detect both in architecture and visual art and in the dialectics of the period. The printing of the book highlights such natural, leaky, soft, flexible and organic forms.
The grid divides the strip into 8 columns and 12 rows for greater flexibility when working with text and image location. The floor of the main set text is variable: its width is reduced depending on the addition of headlines and notes to the page. The form of the main set and notes is subject to the shape, highlighting the white picture on the page and making it the main character of the book.
The images are placed on the left side of the page, taking into account the departures. The subscriptions to the photographs take only two columns and are not subject to the rules of diversion.
