Silver Print · 2022
Stock and Financial Instruments Designers Guide
- Silver A' Design Award 2022 in Print
- CLIENT: Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 47,188
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About Stock and Financial Instruments Designers Guide
Stock and Financial Instruments is a printed guide book about designing visual information for stock markets and financial instruments. The book combines data visualization methods with the basics of financial markets. The content is prepared for designers who begin working for financial companies and need a quick understanding of both fields. Terminology was gathered and reviewed with an economics specialist. The book has a black textile hardcover with screen printing and a jacket with an abstract image. The pages use smooth 120 gram paper to prevent show-through.
About the Silver A' Design Award
Stock and Financial Instruments Designers Guide is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Stock and Financial Instruments Designers Guide is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Stock and Financial Instruments Designers Guide is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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- Unique Properties
- This book constitutes a compendium of theoretical and practical knowledge in the range of designing visual information for stocks and financial instruments, stock markets analysis, and any other related. This guidebook is a synthesis of two knowledge branches, that is data visualization and the basics of financial markets. It was designed with all the novice designers who decide to start working for any financial company in mind. To broaden their knowledge and show other designer's perspective.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Dimensions 176 mm x 241mm
Black textile hardcover and screenprinting
Book jacket with an abstract visual plus short description on the back - Tags
- Book, design, typography, infographics, book editing, data visualization
- Production Technology
- The book is hard covered, covered in textile (so it is more durable and will also give a high aesthetic look). Insides are made with Munken Lynx Smooth 120g/m2 – so that the color of the graphic does not show through to other pages.
- Design Challenge
- The biggest challenge was to gather all the data and information so that the book finally gives a quick understanding on the both topics.
- Research
- To define a problem I have used Design Thinking methods. This way I have found a problem, then the reason it happens, described the problem and potential users. In the next step, I have clarified the users, tried to understand their needs. Finally had to find a way to solve the given problem and a medium that eventually was a printed book.
- Inspiration
- The idea came from my own experience working for a financial institution (as a designer) that did not provide special courses on the financial market topic. I have gathered most of the terminology and consulted with an Economic Ph.D. Moreover, on the polish market, there is no such publication that combines the design basics and financial knowledge for all those who are interested in data visualization for stock markets, etc.
- Project Duration
- The project started in February 2020, printed in May 2021
- Operation Flow
- The book is a knowledge compendium on the topics of data visualization in the context of visualizing for financial markets.
- Patents
- All the copy in the book comes from different sources like books, online articles, etc. All mentioned in the bibliography.
- Image Credits
- All images were taken by Jakub Stelmach.
