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2023 ADC Awards - Publication Design

The Nest

Agency Scott + Slanted Publishers

Client Leisure Labor / Slanted Publishers

Category

Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format

Annual ID

ADC102_PUB031B

About the Work

The Nest is a book, conceived and designed by Scott Massey, about process—the process of designing, and how it changes both what we make and who we are. The Nest is also a book about memory—how memory builds up in layers and influences our experiences, as well as the things we make. The focus of The Nest is a series of posters created in celebration of the exhibition Inside Out & Upside Down: Posters from CalArts 1970–2019. The Nest documents Scott Massey’s use of appropriation, collage, layering and re-working to generate 200 unique and vibrant compositions that each tell a different story about creative discovery. The Nest was born when Massey, a CalArts alum, was commissioned by curator Michael Worthington to design and print a poster for the Inside Out & Upside Down exhibition. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the exhibition at the RedCat in Los Angeles, CA had been postponed. With the world still in the throes of the global pandemic, this was seen as a time to dig deeper, to reflect on what makes each of us unique and what inspires our lives. At the heart of The Nest is an interest in the way form-making can be influenced by not just the circumstances of the present moment, but just as much by history—from the Bauhaus to Swiss Modernism to the variants of Postmodernism that stemmed from CalArts and Cranbrook. Using elements that represent the history and range of the storied CalArts poster archive, this project is an exploration of aesthetic strategies brought to life by blending both digital and analog processes. Layer by layer, step by step, it is a celebration of process and a deep dive into the ever-evolving design values that guide one along the creative process.

2023 Awards

Total Points: 9

Credits

Publisher

Slanted Publishers

Editor

Ethan Stewart

Artist

Scott Massey

Contributor

Bijan Berahimi
Ed Fella
George Bates
Jon Sueda
Juliette Bellocq
Martin Venezky
Paul Sahre
Stefano Giustiniani

Instigator

Tiffanie Tran
Tom Kracauer

Proofreading

Jackson Friedman

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