An Index is a guide or symbol used to navigate everything from books and html to stock markets and colour swatches. The Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Catalogue 2021 presents four navigational indexes as an invitation to explore the themes, materials and methodologies of the 166 graduation projects, each one a symbolic index of both the field of design and our times. Rather than an overarching narrative, indexes are tools to explore how different reading and realities emerge by design.
The Graduation Catalogue consists of 4 larger indexes: the main Index, which contains more than 500 index word with subcategories and references that help the reader to navigate through the projects and shows potential connections. This Index is containing as well an alphabetical index of all the student names and project titles. Followed by a visual index, ordered by departments, a word frequency index of all words used within the project texts and last but definitely not least the project index, structures alphabetical by the names of the students. For the project pages it was important for us to create a fluent layout, that keeps the main structure of a catalogue, but that allows us to portrait each project in the best possible way. For this we asked the students to submit us additional footage that we can use alongside the image that was taken during the photo-shooting.
The Index as well as the headlines are set in 'MAD Sans Bold’ by Colophon Type Foundry is used, which is part of the visual Identity of Design Academy Eindhoven. For all project descriptions and essays 'Söhne’ in Halbfett, by Klim Type Foundry is used, to create a contrast to the relatively thin MAD Sans.
CONCEPT: Wibke Bramesfeld, Nadine Botha, Zeniya Vreugdenhil
EDITORIAL TEAM: Joseph Grima, Nadine Botha, Zeniya Vreugdenhil
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Wibke Bramesfeld
PROJECTLEADER CATALOGUE: Stijn van der Vleuten
STUDENT ASSISTENT DESIGN: Johanna Gratzer
TYPEFACES: MAD Sans (Colophon Type Foundry), Söhne (Klim Type Foundry)
PAPER: Cover Arena Natural Rough 300 gsm 1.35 Index UPM Sol matt 90 gsm, Project Pages Arena Natural Rough 120 gsm 1.35
PRINTING AND LITHOGRAPHY: Rob Stolk, Amsterdam
EDITORIAL TEAM: Joseph Grima, Nadine Botha, Zeniya Vreugdenhil
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Wibke Bramesfeld
PROJECTLEADER CATALOGUE: Stijn van der Vleuten
STUDENT ASSISTENT DESIGN: Johanna Gratzer
TYPEFACES: MAD Sans (Colophon Type Foundry), Söhne (Klim Type Foundry)
PAPER: Cover Arena Natural Rough 300 gsm 1.35 Index UPM Sol matt 90 gsm, Project Pages Arena Natural Rough 120 gsm 1.35
PRINTING AND LITHOGRAPHY: Rob Stolk, Amsterdam
