In Animating Guarini, Mark Ericson reinvigorates the architectural practice of orthographic projection, mining its history to to explore its continued relevance as a generative drawing technique. The book design presents the research and resulting drawings in an elegant fashion, bridging the distance between historical techniques and Ericson’s modern interpretation.
The keystone of Ericson’s research is Italian architect Guarino Guarini’s 1737 treatise Architettura civile. I was able to study a reproduction and reference the page structure, size, and margins of that and other eighteenth century manuscripts when determining the layout. The book is typeset in CAST Foundry’s Sole Serif, a modern reinterpretation of the sixteenth century fonts of fellow Italian Francesco Griffo.
A complex typographic approach and grid structure was needed to accommodate an expansive collection of historical references, illustrations, diagrams, captions and endnotes.
Animating Guarini
Publication Design | 2020