Type softcover
Dimensions 114 x 118 mm with a 42,3 mm spine
Pages 664
ISBN 978-94-93148-35-2
Editor Polina Joffe
Author Madeleine Morley, Max Boersma
Graphic Polina Joffe
Artist Polina Joffe
Language English Release date 20210819
Binding glue only
Paper Munken print white 18, 70g (inside pages), Rives Design Bright white 170gr.(cover)
Edition 500 Color black and red Printer Printon, Tallin (Est.) Font NB International Pro, kindly provided by Stefan Gandl, Neubau
Image specs 270 images in black/red
Details coloured edges of the book-block
Ode to Construction – Abstraction in the Digital Age explores the intersections of graphic design and art through the means of generative code, gesturing playfully and melancholically towards the foundational legacies of the Suprematist and Constructivist movements of the early 20th century.
At once a book, website, and exhibition, Ode to Construction demonstrates the fluidity of design’s materializations within the conditions of the digital, moving effortlessly between screen, print, and space. By reanimating the formal strategies of modernist abstraction, graphic designer Polina Joffe probes the technical and social registers of design today.
Ode to Construction – Abstraction in the Digital Age explores the intersections of graphic design and art through the means of generative code, gesturing playfully and melancholically towards the foundational legacies of the Suprematist and Constructivist movements of the early 20th century.
At once a book, website, and exhibition, Ode to Construction demonstrates the fluidity of design’s materializations within the conditions of the digital, moving effortlessly between screen, print, and space. By reanimating the formal strategies of modernist abstraction, graphic designer Polina Joffe probes the technical and social registers of design today.