René Redzepi, A Work in Progress: A Journal by Pentagram
Posted: July 1, 2019 Filed under: Cafes, Bars and Restaurants, Food and Drink, Graphic Design Reviews | Tags: Astrid Starvo, Book & Magazine Cover Design, Book & Magazine Design, Book Review, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Reviews: Editorial Design, Designed by Pentagram, Designed in London, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Magazine Design, Magazine Spreads, Spot Colours, The Very Best of 2019, Women of Design Comments Off on René Redzepi, A Work in Progress: A Journal by PentagramOpinion by Richard Baird
Pentagram partner Astrid Stavro and project team Jake Gilbert and Susanna Foppoli have recently completed work on A Work in Progress: A Journal, a book from the acclaimed Danish chef René Redzepi, published by Phaidon.
Through Noma, a two-Michelin star restaurant that reimagined Nordic cuisine, René Redzepi has built a formidable reputation for innovation and inventiveness. His viewpoint and approach emerge throughout this new publication by way of a first-person narrative.
Part cookbook but largely a journal that documents a year in the life of Redzepi and his team, the writing is a “candid and witty story about creativity and inspiration”. This follows the process of discovery, creation and refinement, and profiles the struggle, determination and teamwork required to embrace and make the most of the ingredients of each new season. As you would expect from a journal this is delivered alongside the day to day, a transcript of a TedX talk, lists of work delegation, talk of dreams, moments of frustration and visceral scene setting.
Fredrik Værslev As I Imagine Him by Zak Group
Posted: November 28, 2018 Filed under: Art and Design | Tags: Book & Magazine Cover Design, Book & Magazine Design, Book Review, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Reviews: Editorial Design, Designed by Zak Group, Designed in London, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Magazine Design, Spot Colours, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2018, The Very Best of 2018 Comments Off on Fredrik Værslev As I Imagine Him by Zak GroupOpinion by Richard Baird.
Fredrik Værslev as I Imagine Him is an exhibition of work by Norwegian contemporary artist Fredrik Værslev produced over the last decade. The exhibition runs from September 2018 to January 2019 at Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo. Through a focus on process, modes of abstraction and representation, motions between the painterly and the architectural and in the use of untraditional tools such as trolley wheels and defective cans of spray paint, Værslev explores different ways in which paintings can be perceived.
Zak Group, as part of their continuing collaboration with Astrup Fearnley Museet, worked with Fredrik Værslev on the exhibition’s campaign and accompanying catalogue. Drawing on the modernist references of some of the artworks, and the unusual techniques of painting Zak Group developed a visual identity that explores creative agency and creative imposition on the rational. This can be seen in the use of type and graphic gesture, colour and texture and the implication of layers. Alongside reproductions of the artist’s works the catalogue also contains texts by Peter J. Amdam, Therese Möllenhoff and Dieter Roelstraete amongst others. The catalogue comes in two editions, English and Norwegian, differentiated by colour across their covers.
Speculations On Anonymous Materials by Zak Group
Posted: November 13, 2018 Filed under: Art and Design, Graphic Design Reviews | Tags: Book & Magazine Cover Design, Book & Magazine Design, Book Review, Custom Typography, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Reviews: Editorial Design, Designed by Zak Group, Designed in London, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Magazine Design, Magazine Spreads, Metallic Spot Colours, Spot Colours, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2018, The Very Best of 2018 Comments Off on Speculations On Anonymous Materials by Zak GroupOpinion by Richard Baird
Speculations on Anonymous Materials (2013), nature after nature (2014) and Inhuman (2015) is a trilogy of exhibitions, curated by Susanne Pfeffer, that took place at Fridericianum, Europe’s oldest public museum, located in the German city of Kessel. The exhibitions, which mark the institution’s turn towards post-humanist thinking, intended to demonstrate how current artistic practices shift the theoretical boundaries separating the natural from the artificial. London-based design studio Zak Group was recently commissioned to catalogue the trilogy of exhibitions, which was then published by Koenig Books. The catalogue is set in German and English, has 220 pages and features three metallic spot colours.
