I have been working as a graphic designer and photographer since the late 80s, most of the time in designer groups such as Grappa Design or Blotto, which I was involved in founding. Despite the fact that I have always worked in all areas of graphic design, for the first 20 years there was a focus on poster design, which later shifted to book design. This has been very helpful to me in the last 10 when designing my own and other people’s photo books.

My understanding of design is derived from the fundamental knowledge that we have about visual perception and thus connects directly to the basic design course.In the vast majority of cases, graphic design is the combination of various visual components – fonts, images and geometric shapes.The regularities that can be observed in these designs are the same that also determine the internal structure of images. The same phenomena occur here as there: contrasts, groupings, foreground and background, associations, optical illusions.The fact that this is not always immediately visible is due to the additional dimension of legibility, which is often placed in front of the fundamental perceptual phenomena, a similar “disturbing” property as the representational recognizability of photographs.