PROJECT DESCRIPTION
INDEX is a print publication made by a continual remix from a shared repository of writing, photography, and drawings— our own and from the public domain.
INDEX started in 2020 during lockdown as a collaboration across three states and two time zones. Our process encourages chance operations; each designer is free to modify and reuse elements from each other’s work. After three consecutive edits, the result is published via print-on-demand, inviting imperfections and variations in the final copies.
In each issue, we expand upon a common set of visual techniques to communicate and explore how much is designed, including history and place. And how we are now together unpacking the sedimentary layers, excavating bias, then dismantling, mocking, remixing, recasting, reclaiming. The International Style as a carrier wave to redeliver historical oppression as a mirror. Mangling modernism. Free improvisation and cut-up. Détournement and dérive. Experimental publishing. Design as therapy. Design practice as acts of reclamation.
Issue #2 ‘Free’ explores what we observe as enabling, inhibiting, using, and defining the idea of ‘free’ and related qualities of living today. We address the concept of freedom as a brand— for those with immigrant backgrounds and for those living and working within it.
PROJECT INFORMATION
Entry Type: Single Entry
Channel: Print
Primary Role of the Designer: Designer as activist
Client Relationship: An in-house on-going relationship
Intention of the Project: Unknown (NA) / Other (if other, please explain) Second issue of a print publication communicating and exploring how much is designed, including history and place. And how we are now together unpacking the sedimentary layers, excavating bias, then dismantling, mocking, remixing, recasting, reclaiming. The International Style as a carrier wave to redeliver historical oppression as a mirror. Mangling modernism. Free improvisation and cut-up. Détournement and dérive. Experimental publishing. Design as therapy. Design practice as acts of reclamation. Issue #2 ‘Free’ explores what we observe as enabling, inhibiting, using, and defining the idea of ‘free’ and related qualities of living today. We address the concept of freedom as a brand— for those with immigrant backgrounds and for those living and working within it.
Development Budget: Pro bono
Production/Execution Budget: Pro bono
Source of Funding: Donations/crowdsourcing
Typefaces: Akzidenz Grotesk
Paper: A4 (8.27" x 11.69" / 210 x 297 mm), 676 p, Black & White, 60# Uncoated White, Perfect Bound
Materials:
CREDIT INFORMATION
Creative Director: Andrew Chee; Virgilio Santos
Art Director: Andrew Chee; Virgilio Santos
Designers: Andrew Chee; Virgilio Santos
Researchers: Andrew Chee; Virgilio Santos
Developers: Andrew Chee
Copywriter: Andrew Chee; Virgilio Santos
Illustrator: Andrew Chee; Virgilio Santos
Photographer: Andrew Chee; Virgilio Santos
Printer: Rote Press
Producer: Andrew Chee
Other Credits: Stella Santos - Contributor, Writing
INDEX—2 'Free'
Category
Editorial Design
Description
Winner - 365: AIGA Year in Design (2021)
Title: INDEX—2 'Free'
Design Firm/Agency: INDEX
Client Industry: Printing & Publishing
Client Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA
Juror Comments
“Appealing, dense outcome through a layered, engaging process between the designers/friends we all seem to enjoy and always do too little of.” —Jan Wilker
Self-Identified Distinctions: Design for Good, Inclusive Design, Social Releavance, Sustainable Design
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