The ICU School of Design is launching a new exhibition project on book art, which is the first experience in a series of exhibitions on design and the latest principles of visual communication. curators: Mila Ershova, Evgeny Korneev, Elena Rymchina
Learning from the Best
Teachers: Elizabeth Copi Gora, Dmitri Gusev, Svetlana Danieluk
The ICU School of Design is a place where experts of their own work teach. They are all active practices that create major publishing projects and cooperate with Russia’s best publishers and cultural institutions. The criterion of presence in real professional life is the determining factor in the ability of a professional
Mila Ershov. Zürtsumia, Roman. In search of the truth. Aforisms collected by Roman Tsurtsumia from 1964 to 2013 in four notebooks. Pictures by Anna Altabaeva
With regard to the art of the book, mention should also be made of publishing strategies. Many of the changes that shaped the philosophy of the book began in the 1990s, and independent book publishers played a significant role. One of them, Agey Tomesh, became a model of the Design School, and teachers who created their own book brands and collaborated with the best Russian publishers brought to the School not only their own unique experience but also all the diversity of the book world.
Arseny of the Caves, Mila Ershov, Alexandre Kuznetsov
Arsenian Caves. A hundred amazing manuscripts. Agey Tomesh
Eugene Grigoriev. Leningrad wrestling
Visual research
A genre of conceptual research that results in a book or a Longrid. This format is a mandatory part of the student’s education programme in any field of the ICU School of Design, whether it be Design, Modern Arts or Mode. Such research involves an analysis of the phenomenon, subject, object or place primarily from a visual point of view. As not just a reference, but as an author, visual research has new, theoretical and practical value.
Victoria Makeev. Moscow Non-central
Elizabeth Copi-Hora, «How the Track»
Wise Anastasia. Space on your palm
Sophia Jeritui. Visual world of Soviet autoprom: from production to recycling
Olga Kovaleva. Schematics of geometric ornament in medieval religious art
Daria Rodionov. Graphic design of matchboxes in the USSR
Cristina Dug. 100 of the best Design School projects in 10 years.
Tatiana Hosellnikov. Modern domestic magic in the Russian North, 2024 make a slide with three turns.
Book design: students and graduates
The best student books presented in this section are interesting both on their own and through the educational model of the ICU School of Design, which is based on the real demands of the industry. The modern approach to the book project involves not only the writing and presentation of the publication, but also the creation of content and its «smoking». Most of the publications are designed and built from scratch by students, who are given the freedom to choose the subject, text and visual material, structure and interpretation. In a dialogue with teachers, authors develop their own strategies for designing and presenting content. For example, from a model to a model, a new generation of book designers — multidisciplinary, sensitive, and concerned with the subject matter of their work — is gradually emerging.
Elizabeth Jmurin. Closed forever: history of Russia’s cultural rave, 2024
Julia Boytsov «skafandr»
Gapochkin’s anastasia. Ornaments of filler fabrics
Maria Lacheva. Rhinocorn. Eugene Ionesco
Arena Suhanova. Colossal: the history of the Gindenburg dirigible
Maria Alice. Kitoba
Books
A printed visual study can cover not only any place, phenomenon or phenomenon, but also the book itself. A thematic cluster of such studies on the history and theory of book art is presented in this area. The historical fonts, the principles of a set of stripes and turns in different eras, the ingenious ornaments of book models, the initial letters, the schmolts and the headlines, the accedenings or the handwriting of the book — all elements and stages of the book’s production can be the starting point for the creation of a fundamental book about books. The authors' detailed interest in the main subject of their profession has also been documented in the opposite projection, in which the participants share their versions of the answers to the main question — what is the book?
Issyla Galiev. Form of text. 2024
Paulina Livaic. Methods for the production of interactive children ' s books
Varvar Cherneyev. Photo repair: manipulating contrasts
Pauline Artemieva. Brooke typefaces. The 19th century.
