2020 Winner
Communication Design
Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism
Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism
Category—Books
2020 Winner
Communication Design
Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism
Studio
W—E STUDIO:
Designer(s)
Claudine Eriksson and Piera WolfBrooklyn, New York and Zürich
Client
Taschen
Additional Credits
ART DIRECTION:
Claudine Eriksson
Julia Watson
Piera Wolf
ILLUSTRATIONS:
Berke Yazicioglu
AUTHOR:
Julia Watson
PRINCIPAL TYPE:
Favorit Std
Favorit Std Mono
DIMENSIONS:
6.7 x 9.6 in.
(17 x 24.4 cm)
CONCEPT:
In an era of high-tech and climate extremes, we are drowning in information while starving for wisdom. Enter Lo—TEK, a design movement building on indigenous philosophy and vernacular infrastructure to generate sustainable, resilient, nature-based technology. With four chapters spanning mountains, forests, deserts, and wetlands representing twenty countries, this book explores millennia-old human ingenuity on how to live in symbiosis with nature. The copper color reflects precious, ancient knowledge, sophisticated and pure as the Swiss brochure binding. This interactive book features an altitude ruler that links to the bars visible on the book block.
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