Awarded

Prill & Vieceli: Tania Prill / Alberto Vieceli

16 books, two posters 1999 – 2007

Graphic Design

Jury report

Books like Punk and textiles
The two graphic de­sign­ers Tania Prill and Al­berto Vieceli pre­sented 16 books and two posters for the Swiss Fed­eral De­sign Com­pe­ti­tion. A lav­ish and ma­ture se­lec­tion. We are look­ing at work by two sea­soned de­sign­ers who are al­ways ready to try some­thing new, de­spite sev­eral years in the busi­ness, ac­claim and good clients. Their books and posters are pro­fes­sion­ally de­signed, but never look like mere rou­tine. The jury is im­pressed by the two artist's ded­i­ca­tion to book de­sign, their care­ful use of ty­pog­ra­phy and the fact that they are open to new de­sign ap­proaches and type­faces. The book 'Hot Love' about the Punk move­ment in Switzer­land is a clear ex­am­ple of how they trans­late con­tent into de­sign. The rough, di­rect na­ture of that youth move­ment reap­pears in these pages. The book is only par­tially based on a grid. Pho­tographs and text are al­ways slightly stag­gered in re­la­tion to each other; the pic­tures are spaced dif­fer­ently. The book con­sists al­most en­tirely of pages printed in black and white, there are very few colour ac­cents to break the rhythm at ir­reg­u­lar in­ter­vals. De­spite its size, the book is rel­a­tively light, as Tania Prill and Al­berto Vieceli have cho­sen a vo­lu­mi­nous Munken paper. Two con­tem­po­rary posters serve as a cover, with de­tails of book and au­thors added by the de­sign­ers.
The book 'Khadi – Tex­tile of India' also shows how the de­sign­ers trans­late con­tent into de­sign. The book records the man­u­fac­tur­ing process from the cot­ton crop to the com­pleted gar­ment in Khadi fab­ric. In order to cap­ture the sen­sual na­ture of the fab­ric in the book, the de­sign­ers chose a coated paper and used a Japan­ese bind­ing. This has pro­duced pages that now slip through the fin­gers like the finest cot­ton, feel­ing soft and smooth – an at­trac­tive de­tail. They em­pha­size the idea of the process by re­peat­edly show­ing two or three pho­tographs of peo­ple at work pro­duced at close time in­ter­vals. One has a sense of see­ing how some­thing comes into being. Prill's and Vieceli's books are vi­sual and tac­tile ex­pe­ri­ences.
Ar­i­ana Pradal

Biography

Tania Prill
Born in
1969
Education
Graphic Designer
Group name
PrillVieceliCremers

also in

2008

2014

Alberto Vieceli
Born in
1965
Education
Graphic Designer
Group name
PrillVieceliCremers

also in

2008

2014

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