Pages made out of personal memories, a pink cover and lightweight paper come in this book hand in hand with a heavy and solid type, newspaper cutouts and a sense of graveness. The author Joachim Schwarz ties personal stories about WWII in Germany’s outskirts to collective narratives. We could feel and see that the designer Marius Schwarz fortified this in how he refers to newspaper design as well as diary pages in his contribution to Heimkommen. We enjoyed this balanced collaboration in which the designer and the author—a father and son—used each other’s qualities to amplify the narrative.
Pages made out of personal memories, a pink cover and lightweight paper come in this book hand in hand with a heavy and solid type, newspaper cutouts and a sense of graveness. The author Joachim Schwarz ties personal stories about WWII in Germany’s outskirts to collective narratives. We could feel and see that the designer Marius Schwarz fortified this in how he refers to newspaper design as well as diary pages in his contribution to Heimkommen. We enjoyed this balanced collaboration in which the designer and the author—a father and son—used each other’s qualities to amplify the narrative.