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Stiftung Buchkunst Visual

The Best German Book Design 2020

These outstanding examples of design, concept and finishing are selected for the award by an independent jury.

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Jeder Tag ist Ida-Tag

Jeder Tag ist Ida-Tag (Every Day Is Ida-Day)

This personal diary documents 44 days in the life of young Ida and her bunny. Each day has a different...

This personal diary documents 44 days in the life of young Ida and her bunny. Each day has a different motto — “Cleaning Day”, “Sad Day”, “Decision Day” — and takes the form of a comic strip. The action takes place on the righthand pages, in open sequences that eschew conventional panel frames and speech bubbles. The sequence order and reading direction are determined only by the figurative logic of the images.

Graphically, what’s particularly interesting is the way the pen strokes vary in boldness and density, be it in the panels or the hand-drawn block letters, both of which are in a muted cyan blue, although the images, precisely overprinted with an orange-red, appear a shade darker. This secondary print colour also features on its own, namely in Ida’s ponytailed hair.

The rustic style of the pen work is matched by that of the daily headings, in which sans serif letters with a broken bold face jiggle along the baseline, looking like they were individually stamped onto the page. That broken look is echoed by the surface of the full-bleed background opposite. Here, something rather remarkable unfolds almost imperceptibly, on the periphery as it were: every day, a new object wanders over to the left-hand page, which gradually fills up until it resembles a hidden picture puzzle. Not that this is just some metaphor for an individual’s gradual accumulation of stuff; rather, it underlines how things have a meaning that goes beyond the object itself — by virtue of their associated memories.

Publisher:
ISBN:
978-3-89565-383-4
Author:
Antje Damm
Pages:
96
Format:
17 x 24 cm
Price:
€ 12.00
Date:
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