Stellar Moments of Humankind
Semester 3, Visual Communication, HGK Basel (2024)
Project: Book Typography
Tutor: Jinsu Ahn
"Stellar Moments of Humankind" by Stefan Zweig is a collection of historical explorations told with vivid, descriptive writing. The central concept pulls interesting moments out of the main text, giving them visual importance and interfering with the grey value within the justified columns. Each story has its own unique way of highlighting these moments, making them individual to one another. Futura Now is used throughout, with a different cut per story, while the body text remains consistent to create unity. The cover continues with this, a typographic composition printed on a translucent dust jacket over a neon yellow cover illustrated with a map, where the translucent layer symbolises the undiscovered world.