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Editorial / Print

Book Design

The book as designed artifact — grid, type, image, and sequence. A program book on print in environmental design, and Designing Me, a hardbound volume.

DisciplinePublishing
CategoryEditorial / Print
Year2023
StatusCompleted

Included Works

  • Program Book — Print in environmental design
  • Designing Me — Hardbound Volume I
Front cover of the Designing Me hardcover book
The Designing Me volume seen at an angle, with Volume 1 on the spine
Boxed volume with the name Purvi Thawrrani on the front

Overview

The book as designed artifact: grid, type, image, and sequence. This page brings together a program book on print in environmental design and Designing Me, a hardbound volume.

The program book is a booklet that follows print through interiors, from handcrafted wallpapers to digital installations. Designing Me is a square cloth-bound hardcover with a boxed edition, where the title and the volume number carry the design.

Program Book — Print in Environmental Design

A booklet on print in space.

A program book on environmental design that looks at how printed graphics shape the rooms we move through. It traces the integration of print in interiors, from handcrafted wallpapers and sign painting to digital installations and modular wall systems.

The layout is held to a quiet, open grid. Small running numerals and section names sit above a clean text column, while black and white photographs of patterned interiors, tiles and textiles carry the page.

Open booklet spread titled History, with black and white interior photographs and a wallpaper of palm trees on the left page and two columns of text on the right
01History — pages 03 and 04. Interior photographs lead into a short account of how print entered the built environment.
Booklet spread with a row of patterned tile, wallpaper and interior photographs across the left page and a Moorish courtyard beside a black and white geometric tile pattern on the right page
02Printed graphics, pages 06 and 07. A row of tile and wallpaper references leads to a courtyard and its star pattern.
Booklet spread with an About text on the left page and an Influence of Prints page showing a sink tiled with an elephant pattern on the right
03About and Influence of Prints, pages 04 and 05. A short statement on print and space, set against an elephant-pattern sink.

Designing Me — Volume I

A hardbound volume.

Designing Me is a square, cloth-bound hardcover, printed with a fine dotted pattern. The title is set in a serif, with the word “Me” faded back so that it reads as the part still being designed.

The name sits alone on the front of the slipcase-style box, and “Volume I” runs down the spine.

Front cover of the Designing Me hardcover book, a square grey patterned cloth with the title Designing Me in the centre
04Front cover, Designing Me.
The Designing Me volume seen at an angle, showing the spine printed with Volume 1 and the title on the cover
05Spine, printed with Volume I.
Boxed volume seen at an angle, with the name Purvi Thawrrani on the front and Volume I on the spine
06Box, with the name on the front and Volume I on the spine.