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Catalog Takes Silver in National Design Competition
August 11, 2006
A recent award proves what we’ve known all along—the IU Office of Creative Services is home to some of the top art directors and editors in the country.
The judges of the University & College Designers Association (UCDA) 36th Annual Design Competition selected our entry, Places of the Imagination, for a silver award. The judges evaluated more than 1,600 print entries, bestowing 143 awards—5 Gold Awards, 16 Silver Awards, and 122 Awards of Excellence. Former Creative Services art director David Wang designed the catalog and Linda Stephenson served as editor.
The piece, whose full title is Places of the Imagination: A Celebration of Worlds, Islands, and Realms & Imaginary and Constructed Languages, was created as a catalog to accompany an exhibition of books and manuscripts at IU’s Lilly Library. The summer exhibition featured the library’s holdings related to some of literature’s most famous imaginary places and languages. Wang and Stephenson worked with Lilly Library rare book librarians Rebecca Cape and Anthony Tedeschi in creating the catalog.
The goal in designing the catalog was to create a piece that was reminiscent of many of the old world books included in the exhibition. The cover stock was chosen to simulate the leather feel of old books. Wang used a three-dimensional artistic technique to convey a sense of the actual books in the exhibition.
