El que no pot impedir una pandèmia

BAU, Centro Universitario de Artes y Diseño is an art and design school in Barcelona. BAU alumnus Sergio Lairisa was commissioned to design a gift for a generation of students that didn’t have a proper final term because of the restrictions caused by Covid-19. El que no pot impedir una pandèmia (“What cannot be stopped by a pandemic”) showcases the graduation projects of the 2016–20 design class.

From the designer’s Instagram page (translated):

During confinement, most of the work could be carried out thanks to the messengers and the messengers who managed to deliver everything necessary for the students. Homes became a graveyard of bar codes, strange letters, numbers, cuboids, and lots of cardboard. The proposal is a material metaphor from a beginning (the container box) to an end (the formalization of the project), an appropriation of messaging languages. Each student owns a sheet with a unique composition, a total of 144 students with dedications from the direction and teaching staff (300 pages).

The book design uses Benoît Bodhuin’s Mineral and Dinamo’s ABC Favorit.