Based on the development of a self-organising, programmatic and rhizomatic design, Atelier Carvalho Bernau created this series of deceptively simple, geometric designs for Amsterdam-based publishing house Octavo.
Briefed with the wish for a collection of cheaply published books that are functional, durable and beautiful objects, the designers approached this project with an awe-inspiring and thought-provoking methodology of research of both the physicality of books and of how their data could be used to make readable connections between the individual titles visible.
The results are a design system in which each book is unique but relates to the others, so that what sits on the shelf is a visual continuum.