ArtEZ Enschede —informally known as AKI— was, in 2012, a mixture of specialties, departments and possibilities for students to choose their own path and switch from department to department by just following their inquisitiveness; becoming a totem, a survivor from the standardization of studies. In this environment, students worked in collaboration with each other, creating multi-colored groups in which art and design coexist and influence each other. This became the main idea to be translated into the yearbook; the concept of mixture, relationships and groups of people working together represented by their output.
A tabloid format was chosen as the most efficient way of having the maximum number of copies printed of the school's yearbook for a reasonable price. A local newspaper was approached and they collaborated by including the yearbook as a special edition distributed all over the city of Enschede.
A tabloid format was chosen as the most efficient way of having the maximum number of copies printed of the school's yearbook for a reasonable price. A local newspaper was approached and they collaborated by including the yearbook as a special edition distributed all over the city of Enschede.
The publication was design to be a newspaper but also as a large poster to be constructed by the public. Its pages working as big pieces, and with just a small guide offering a possibility of construction. The publication itself possibilities readers to build their own poster, making their own associations and departments. A wall of fame chose and curated by each reader.
Student's personal info and contact data was place in the back of the pages, simulating a dark side of the images presented, clearing the view from pictures and releasing "noise" and texts into a separated lecture level. 5000 copies were printed and distributed in the city. Later it was reprinted to be part of ArtEZ global yearbook among Arnhem's and Zwolle's selections.
Student's personal info and contact data was place in the back of the pages, simulating a dark side of the images presented, clearing the view from pictures and releasing "noise" and texts into a separated lecture level. 5000 copies were printed and distributed in the city. Later it was reprinted to be part of ArtEZ global yearbook among Arnhem's and Zwolle's selections.
