Art and Us Book Design

Vilius Dringelis's Art and Us Book Design commands immediate attention through its audacious deployment of bold vermillion typography cascading diagonally across a sophisticated monochromatic field, establishing a dynamic tension between chromatic intensity and tonal restraint that defines the composition's essential character. The cover presents a masterful study in figure-ground complexity, where organic silver-white forms resembling cellular structures, mineral formations, or perhaps magnified biological specimens create an intricate visual terrain against a deep charcoal background featuring rhythmic dot-matrix patterns that suggest digital processing or halftone printing heritage. The arrangement follows an asymmetrical diagonal armature, with the crimson letterforms "ART & US" positioned to create a powerful visual vector from upper left toward lower right, generating kinetic energy that propels the eye across the surface while the underlying graphic elements provide textural counterpoint. The chromatic strategy employs a severely restricted palette of warm cadmium red, cool neutral grays ranging from near-white to deep charcoal, with occasional iridescent highlights visible in the reflective mylar substrate beneath, creating subtle rainbow chromatic shifts that add dimensional complexity. The book object itself sits upon undulating metallic silver material that mirrors and extends the cover's silvered aesthetic, establishing a unified material environment where object and context merge into cohesive visual statement. Spatial construction remains deliberately shallow, emphasizing the two-dimensional picture plane while the textural variations between smooth typographic surfaces and granulated organic patterns create optical depth through tactile differentiation rather than perspectival recession. The lighting appears diffused and environmental, captured photographically to reveal the material qualities of both the printed cover and its reflective staging surface, with soft highlights describing the gentle dimensional curves of the draped metallic cloth while maintaining readable clarity across all graphic elements.

Lewben Art Foundation has published a book of selected works of foundation. The art album consists of two parts: the main one with visualizations and a booklet with information in the pocket. The book creates an impression of the artist sketchbook, therefore, each page is illustrated with original textures and used a stitching technology. To reveal the topic were used a transparent PVC cover and various transparent and rough papers for documentation and markers. As in the sketchbook, the book is rich in various technical principles - foiling, offset printing and silk-screen printing.