Autonomous Archive/hand-curated/design-process

Process

Drafts

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Layout

layout grid

image captions with aspect ratio

names / metadata

raster (AM Raster)

Why the book as a medium?

• fixed structure & narrative vs database of wiki / archive.
• Haptic experience (Paper vs digital)
• Legitimacy
• Self-contained
• using the book as a statement / fixed object in time and space
• capturing a certain timeframe -> fixed
• creates access to the actual archive

Images

• images on glossy paper only
• image captions on matt paper and with aspect ratio of images
• the use of flash and verticals as a way of creating a consistent visual structure as a way to emphasize a lived in space
• rastering (give back the character of the old print mediums from zins of formal squatts)

Typography

Libre Baskerville

• open source
• supporting the open spirit
• referring to the time of PG 1879
• Industrialization
• Eclecticism (architecture)

Metadata

• Metadata (tuned – information about interviewed people)
• Layouting much text: how to generate tension

→using indents and iterating throughout the book

Paper

• Chromolux 700m(one sided glossy - one sided matt) on glossy side
• photography, on matt side - text. this way we used paper as well as an haptical communication element.
• contradiction of the building, inside - outside
• guide through the publication, seperate images and text (support structure)
• give value to archival material.

Printing & Binding

Dummy

• We made a dummy at the American Book Center in Amsterdam with the bookprinting automat »Betty«

Final Printrun

Printing:

• Laserprint 1c
• Raddraier https://raddraaier.nl/
• former squat + printer for squats (connection to PG)

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Binding:

• Gluebinding
• Boekbinderij Hennink