Drugi jezik na kojem je dostupan ovaj članak: Bosnian
The monograph on firefighters and the catalog of the Metaphoria II exhibition in Athens, designed by Studio Sonda from Croatian town of Vižinada, as winners of the 50 Books | 50 Covers competition are included in the collection of rare books at the Butler Library of the Columbia University and at the Robert Haas Arts Library at Yale University.
The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the oldest and most numerous trade association of designers with over 70 branches and 25,000 members, based in New York, and Design Observer, a website devoted to promotion and critical reviews of design, social innovation, urbanism and popular culture, have published the results for the competition 50 Books | 50 Covers for 2016. The competition selects 50 top world issues in each of the two categories (design of the book and cover), and includes two works by Studio Sonda from Vižinada.
These are the monograph Na vatrenoj liniji (“On the line of fire”) that brings a chronological cross-section of the history of voluntary and professional fire brigades in the Poreč area from the 19th century to today, and the cover is made by the handprints of all the employees of the Public Fire Department – Center for Fire Protection Poreč at the time when the book was made. Author of the edition is Elena Poropat Pustijanac, curator of the Provincial Museum of Poreština. Editor was Elena Uljančić-Vekić, and the initiator of the project was recently retired commander of the Public Fire Department Adrijano Jugovac.
The second awarded book is Metaphoria II, a catalog designed as a virtual tour of the Athenian exhibition Metaphoria II, commissioned by the French art lab Grupe Bel: Lab’Bel. The authors and curators of the exhibition are Silvia Guerra and Michael Staab, and the production is signed by the Lab’Bel Artistic laboratory of the Bel Group, or more precisely the director Laurent Fiévet and Art Director Silvia Guerra.
Publishers and designers from 23 countries entered about 700 works, and winners who show excellence in book and cover design were selected by the jury: Gail Anderson, New York based designer, author and educator, founder of Anderson Newton Design and formerly senior art director in the magazine Rolling Stone; Michael Carabetta, a multi-award-winning creative director at San Francisco’s Chronicle Books publisher; and Jessica Helfand, Editor of Design Observer, and an award-winning author and designer recently honoured with the admission into the Art Director’s Hall of Fame.
AIGA was founded in 1914 and the award 50 Books | 50 Covers has been awarded since 1923.
Thanks to this award, copies of the books on firefighters from Poreč and Metaphoria II will be included in the collection of rare books at the Butler Library of the Columbia University and at the Robert Haas Arts Library at Yale University.
The firefighters of Poreč, and Metaphoria II, will also be promoted by AIGE through their Bookends campaign, which combines the inspirational designs since 1924, which thus become a permanent part of the historical review of the most revered graphic design, the AIGA Design Archives, and will also be published in the Design Observer.