Artist’s catalogue
Vasile Rata Artist’s Cataloguie
Client: Vasile Rata
Dimensions: 220 x 260 mm / p 108
Paper: offset, 150g
Cover: Version 1 – cardboard 3mm covered with metallic folio+CMYK print
Version 2 – Aluminum Dibond
Copy: 250 copies
Press: Printco
In 2016, celebrating a double anniversary, the painter Vasile Rata wished to have a catalogue with the art works done until that moment.
Like the artist’s vision, our design reveals his two-fold attitude: both ironic and rational, cool and emotional. Thus we used a varied layout, combining details with entire objects or sets of objects’ representations. Due to the artist’s approach with the materiality of the metal, we have opted for metallic covers for a limited number of copies, while the remaining part of the edition has the covers printed on silver folio. The design of the book wishes to emphasize the main feature of the artist’s work: a kind of roughness and a spirit of craft. This is why we avoided the neat, smooth, fine materials and finishings. Instead of them, we prefered the folio (metal) and cardboard textures, and the lack of refined binding. We proposed to emboss the author’s name on the first cover of the book suggesting the artist’s craft skills. In the case of the metal cover, the letters are engraved by the author himself. For this reason every cover is unique. To underline the craft feature, we used Fresco typeface from www.typeby.com for its „crafted” details.