About me
Hi! My name is Aleksandra. I am a book designer who specialises in typesetting and creating book layouts.
I have experience across every stage of book production, from initial concept to final print. In my student projects, I have also taken on the roles of editor and compiler. I develop the concept for each book and translate it into a layout, selecting typefaces and establishing a typographic style. I pay close attention to typographic conventions, prepare images for print, select paper stocks, liaise with printers, and have hands-on experience with bookbinding.I am looking to work with independent publishers specialising in non-fiction on art, culture and history.Here are some of my projects
Russian Cinema of the 2000s: Comfort and Crisis
The book explores Russian cinema of the 2000s through the contrast between mainstream films, which offer a feel-good, vivid, and nostalgic image of the decade, and auteur cinema, which examines loneliness and еxistential crisis while reflecting on the crisis of national identity in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse.
The chapters are organized by year and combine film-related articles from Seans magazine, offering an overview of each period, with articles focusing on individual films and directors.
The contrast between outward prosperity and inner crisis shapes the structure of the book: mainstream and auteur cinema coexist, but are presented in different formats. While developing the book’s format, I created a small prototype to test how the pages would be assembled after printing, then designed the layout accordingly.
The chronicle is distinguished through type style and color. TT Norms Pro is used for article layouts, while TT Norms Pro Serif is used for the chronicle, footnotes, and running headers.
Joseph Brodsky. Nature Morte: Exhibition catalogue
The exhibition Nature Morte at the Fountain House is an installation dedicated to Joseph Brodsky. Named after his poem of the same title, it brings together the poet’s personal belongings, offering insight into his life and work.This book is a catalogue of the exhibition, featuring photographs of the objects on display, stories behind selected pieces, and the poem itself, which runs throughout the book.
The objects are arranged on a rectangular platform, with larger pieces of furniture defining the installation’s overall form and smaller objects displayed on plinths of varying heights at its center. The structure and format of the exhibition determine the structure of the catalogue.
The curator’s narrative is divided into sections defined not by thematic content or chronology, but by the physical layout of the exhibition space. These sections also form the basis for the book’s structure.
«It is one large still life made up of many smaller ones, but you have to identify these smaller still lifes yourself, as your eye picks them out.»
(Pavel Kotlyar)
Each new section opens with an overview of the objects it contains, presenting the larger still life composed of many smaller ones. The narrative then zooms in, moving from the whole to its individual parts.The typeface chosen for the book, Baltica, evokes the period.
Boris. A Script by Dmitry Krymov
Boris is a postmodernist theatre production by Dmitry Krymov that reinterprets Alexander Pushkin’s historical drama Boris Godunov.Krymov’s scripts are works in progress — drafts of a future performance that continues to evolve throughout the staging process. This process-oriented approach is also reflected in the narrative: the events of the original play are framed as a concert, and the actors address both the audience and the sound engineers.
The stages of the process become layers that overlap and interact. Each is connected to the others, transforming out of what came before.
