2010年10月13日

[書,設計] Book Design Studio in Academy of Fine Art in Warsaw

Book Design Studio
Graphic Art DepartmentAcademy of Fine Arts in Warsaw


Prof. Maciej Buszweicz
Above all, his studio is about reclaiming letter as an image. It extends beyond an exercise in quark or a choice of fonts- it is about building a typographic consciousness. A typography that returns to the roots of the picture in the relationship between picture and literature. Only at that level, is "work against the grain of words" meaningful. It requires a particular sensitivity and visual hearing. The most important processes in book design happen at the borderlands of seeing and hearing. For Buszewicz, book design is a unique and timeless process.

In his own words:
"Each artistic creation, each graphic design is an object to communicate with another person without the need for direct contact. It is an object to transmit information, thoughts, moods and many other things. The author is contacted through an object of his/her creation. If we reach for a book published in the 1930s, the people who created it are long gone, but our close relation with them remains through the object they created. This applies to any art object, be it a painting in the museum or an altarpiece in the church. The intimate relationship between humans is carried through objects that have almost magical properties to enable such contact and thought exchange." 
(Book Alchemy [Alchmia ksiąźki], vidart nr 12/2004, interview by Andrzej Tuka).
How we differ Buszewicz describes in the above-cited interview:
"The text that Januszewski uses for his studio projects is just an excuse to play with a picture. A picture in a sense of an illustration. In my studio the gravity falls on text which is not necessarily ordinary and simple... The design is revealed by turning the pages in the book and witnessing the progressing and intensifying disease that affects the letters. The image is built consciously through tension of the text; the image is never clear. From a formal point of view, the book resembles classic typography and the effects appear to be results of some mistakes in the process. Text is the focus of the book but the text is not just a typeset. Text is also not just an illustration; the form and use of letters is consequential."

我捧著作品集出現在課堂上,Prof. Buszewicz邊翻邊提出幾個問題時,瞬間覺得自己早先的作品很不成熟,十分羞愧,尤其是攝影作品。但他仍很和善地要我週三早上出席,將出一份小作業給我,讓我們彼此瞭解,並找出未來一起工作的方式。

被尊重的感覺非常好,儘管知道自己有很多不足,還要大量地學習,可不會因此而被嫌棄。老師們視自己為學生的協助者而非指導者,我們完全被認為是獨立且完整的人,實在是太棒了。

繼續努力吧卜,別讓自己和別人失望了。



1 則留言:

  1. 三個月後回過頭看當時的自我勸勉
    慚愧得不得了

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