Exhibition

Designers' Choice

Oct. 18th – Dec. 23rd 2022

Lugano, Switzerland

How many approaches exist to choose a book in a public library? What influences your choices? What are you looking for in a library with more than 3000 photobooks? Are you attracted by covers and book spines? Are you interested in specific topics? Are you focused on a specific author? We invited a group of graphic designers that collaborate with Artphilein Editions to visit our library and select a bunch of books. They answered to these questions and proposed different paths…

Venue

Artphilein Library

Curated by

Emiliano Biondelli, Sara Murrone

Address via Ferruccio Pelli 13, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland

12 editions on edcat featured in this exhibition

Until Death Do Us Part

The Silence of Dogs in cars

Allowed To Grow Old

No More No Less

Goats and Sheep

A Portrait Farm

This empty world

On Abortion

You run around town like a fool and you think that it’s groovy

Italy & Italy

MASK

The Cars

A Road Divided

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