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Winner of the 365: AIGA Year in Design, Editorial Design category; the American Institute of Graphic Arts advocates for and practices all forms of communication design, from print to web to service to spaces, physical to virtual
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INDEX #2 ‘FREE’ / AIGA 365 Editorial Design of the Year

Winner of the 365: AIGA Year in Design, Editorial Design category; the American Institute of Graphic Arts advocates for and practices all forms of communication design, from print to web to service to spaces, physical to virtual.

365: AIGA Year in Design (2021) ↴
INDEX #2, Editorial Design
AIGA

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Rote Press

Juror Comments ↴
“Appealing, dense outcome through a layered, engaging process between the designers/friends we all seem to enjoy and always do too little of.”
—Jan Wilker

Distinctions ↴
Design for Good, Inclusive Design, Social Relevance, Sustainable Design

INDEX is a print publication made by a continual remix from a shared repository of writing, photography, and drawings— our own and from the public domain.

INDEX started in 2020 during lockdown as a collaboration across three states and two time zones. Our process encourages chance operations; each designer is free to modify and reuse elements from each other’s work. After three consecutive edits, the result is published via print-on-demand, inviting imperfections and variations in the final copies.

In each issue, we expand upon a common set of visual techniques to communicate and explore how much is designed, including history and place. And how we are now together unpacking the sedimentary layers, excavating bias, then dismantling, mocking, remixing, recasting, reclaiming. The International Style as a carrier wave to redeliver historical oppression as a mirror. Mangling modernism. Free improvisation and cut-up. Détournement and dérive. Experimental publishing. Design as therapy. Design practice as acts of reclamation.

Issue #2 ‘Free’ explores what we observe as enabling, inhibiting, using, and defining the idea of ‘free’ and related qualities of living today. We address the concept of freedom as a brand— for those with immigrant backgrounds and for those living and working within it.

Credits ↴
Creative Director, Art Director, Designers, Researchers, Copywriter, Illustrator, Photographer: Andrew Chee; Virgilio Santos; Developer: Andrew Chee; Printer: Rote Press; Producer: Andrew Chee; Contributor, Writing: Stella Santos

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@andrewchee
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2024 Apr 25 11:18:12 UTC, CC BY-SA International, Andrew Chee.

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