I finally got my hands on the copies of Altitude in which i’m featured for two of my projects on a double spread.

I know it somehow old news, but I finally got my hands on the copies of Altitude in which i’m featured for two of my projects on a double spread:

One is the limited edition of Sun Tzu «The Art of War» - 13 generative readings of the original text written by the chinese tactician.

- Limited edition of a set of 13 books; each of them is a re-interpretation of «The Art of War» written by Sun Tzu around 3,000 BC Designed using home-made software specifically developed to take in account the structure of the text (text analysis + statistics).

The second featured work is the Corporate Annual Report for an edition company .TXT - made in collaboration with Pierre Terrier (who recently founded Koilinen, with Franz Hoffman)

- Patterns, text & display. Designed using home-made software specifically developed for the branding of a publishing company

I quite like the description of the content (it somehow really makes you feel proud of your work):

Altitude
Contemporary Swiss Graphic Design

A new wave of intellectually rigorous and iconoclastic Swiss designers are carving their niche in a new graphic language. By combining traditional high quality “Swiss Style” with advanced media, they are giving rise to a progressive style of visual expression. Seven years after publishing “Swiss Graphic Design”, we present “Altitude” - a new generation of flourishing contemporary designers, giving insight into the impact, essence and diversity of the work and evaluating the significant evolution of illustration and typography in recent years.

An increasing number of designers are working internationally with interdisciplinary design practices in typography, vector graphics, photography, interiors and web design. They bring about an experimental, playful and humorous element while maintaining the minimalist approach and precision that gives Swiss Design its universally recognized trademark.

Altitude is an expansive volume that showcases and examines current trends as well as providing an analysis of contemporary Swiss Design through visuals, texts, interviews and commentary from the designers and editors themselves.

and BTW, I really like the way the book is bind, and the continuity of the red shadow on the spine:

Altitude, Gestalten Verlag, Berlin

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