Platform: 2022

Platform: 2022 

Designed by James Brook for Edinburgh Art Festival, 2022 

Booklet  | 210 x 165 mm | 16 pages 

Printed by Allander, Edinburgh, on Edixion Offset 170 gsm 

Now in its 8th year, Platform: 2022 offers audiences an opportunity to experience the breadth and vitality of emerging contemporary art practice in Scotland. Platform: 2022 has been selected by writer and researcher Seán Elder, artist Lucy Skaer, and Director of Dundee Contemporary Arts, Beth Bate. The 2022 edition, curated by Laura McSorley, brings together new work by Saoirse Amira Anis, Emelia Kerr Beale, Lynsey MacKenzie and Jonny Walker.  

The cover design includes circles taken from the colon that appears in the Platform: 2022 logo with imagery selected from one of the four artists, in this instance, the work of Lynsey MacKenzie. The leaflet is typeset in two typefaces, Freight Sans Pro and Adelle Sans, selected for their character and readability. The layout follows the design of previous iterations but, for this edition, has been adapted to include different types of information including a glossary of terms.  

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Edinburgh Art Festival Commissions Programme 2022 Booklet and Leaflets

Edinburgh Art Festival Commissions Programme

Designed by James Brook for Edinburgh Art Festival, 2022

3 leaflets | 210 x 165 mm – flat size 210 x 492 mm | 6 pages roll folded

1 booklet | 210 x 165 mm | 24 pages plus cover

Printed by Allander, Edinburgh, on Edixion Offset 160gsm

Printed matter that I designed for the Edinburgh Art Festival Commissions Programme 2022 interpretation material. Consisting of one booklet and three leaflets, it was designed to present a cohesive identity for the commissions programme, with a common typographic stye and layout as well as a colour, taken from the EAF programme guide, which I also worked on. 

I used different weights of Proxima Nova to create a hierarchy of information in a layout that is adaptable to the different content for each leaflet. Full bleed images from each commission have been used to create impact on the cover. The leaflets (for Community Wellbeing Collective, Nadia Myre, and Pester and Rossi) are 8 page double-gatefolds, folded to 165mm x 210mm while the Channels booklet is 24 pages plus cover, trimmed to the same size – this is the size of the books, booklets, and leaflets that I have designed for EAF in previous years, building a connected set of print that documents the Edinburgh Art Festival’s growing series of artists’ commissions.

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