Studio Babak Golkar: A dialogic language experience. by Educe Design & Innovation Inc

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Babak Golkar is a Visual Artist based out of Vancouver, B.C. ED&,I was commissioned by West Vancouver Museum to design the artist book featuring Golkar’s installations Dialectic of Failure, Time to Let Go… and Of Labour, Of Dirt. To provide an immersive and playful experience of Babak Golkar’s work, Educe applied novel strategies to layout, language systems and visual forms, triggering a dialogic catalogue experience that… echoes the artist’s practice and work. Babak Golkar’s installations were featured at West Vancouver Museum, Vancouver Art Gallery’s ‘Offsite’ location in downtown Vancouver and at the Sazmanab/Ab Anbar gallery in Tehran. ED&,I designed a book that is especially playful for the bilingual reader—the unconventional rotating layout of text and images invites user participation and interaction. The texts are treated as modular elements that cut into each other, echoing themes of tension in Golkar’s work. ED&,I applied a layout design that uses tension, air and pacing to add to the reader experience.