Atelier Carvalho Bernau Design

An great selection of work from Atelier Carvalho Bernau Design, a design studio in the Netherlands whose practice mainly focuses on typography, layout and type design. I love the fact that they work mainly within the creative and cultural sectors, such as for artists, exhibitions and education as their work really demonstrates a creative edge that pushes the boundaries of the more conventional design you'd normally see in commercial work. Some of the work is very technical and clever in terms of the typographic treatment whereas other projects would be incredibly simple to the stage that they almost seem undesigned/natural.

Index of Cloudless Skies is a great example of this, partly thanks to their client who seems to allow them complete freedom to experiment and do whatever they want whilst providing them with the best content ever. The idea was to basically put found images of cloudless skies into a book format. The final design outcome might seem very simple, but it is the design process that I'm interested in for something like this. I think ATelier Carvalho Bernau Design would be another to get in contact with for my design context, a publication project like this would be so fun to work on!

Dear Reader
'A collection of obsessions, oblique references and footnotes of design processes — though not necessarily texts about design.

The layout is appropriately diverse and eclectic for the bandwidth of texts, layering different formats and texts, as a tongue-in-cheek reference to the design shtick of publications with different paper formats. Here we present three iconic formats in emphasized-as-fake three-dimensionality, on four different papers and more inks than you would think. 

Dear Reader was created partly from a primordial graphic designers’ urge to publish something and to share texts that are dear to us, partly in celebration of our Atelier’s approximate fifth anniversary, and partly as a vessel to showcase our type design work in a manner that circumvents the conventions and the visual clichés of the type specimen'

Really love the format of this publication, creating a container within each spread to produce an insert effect.