Photo Book Design: From Concept to Binding
The Concept in Other Photo Books
A course by Roberta Donatini , Graphic Designer and Art Director
About the video: The Concept in Other Photo Books
Overview
“In this lesson you will see how other authors have translated the concept of a project into a book. At all stages of the photo book design process, you need to keep the starting idea in mind.”
In this video lesson Roberta Donatini addresses the topic: The Concept in Other Photo Books, which is part of the Domestika online course: Photo Book Design: From Concept to Binding. Learn to create a photography book, from selecting the images, format, and design to the paper and binding for your mock-up.
Partial transcription of the video
“The concept in other photo books In the previous lesson we saw how we started from the idea behind the photographic project and we have translated it into editorial form. Now let's look at three book examples to see how they deal with the conceptualization phase. The book takes as food for thought the theory of return times, so a catastrophic event repeats itself after some time. In 1966 there was a strong wave of bad weather which has created floods and landslides throughout Northern Italy and Tuscany. The event is particularly famous for the damage created in Florence and for the famous h...”
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Course summary for: Photo Book Design: From Concept to Binding
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Bookbinding, Design, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Photography
Roberta Donatini
A course by Roberta Donatini
Roberta Donatini is a graphic designer and art director who lives in Milan. In 2016, following a stay in Paris where she worked with multiple photographers, designers, and architects, she took an offer to join the in-house team at Fabrica, an experimental communications research center based in Treviso.
She currently collaborates with cultural institutions, studios, and communication agencies on a freelance basis. She specializes in editorial photography and creating photo books, from the concept to final print, and has been teaching editorial design at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan since 2021. She also organizes dance events around Milan and other cities with the collective Ciao Mare (@ciaomarebaci).
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