ZAREZ / COMMA

AUTHORS
Ira Payer, Tina Ivezić

YEAR
2009 -

PUBLISHER
Druga strana, Zagreb

DETAILS
rotary press, 390 x 275 mm
 

Zarez, a Croatian fortnightly for culture and society, underwent redesign in 2009. The designers respected the programmatic idea of Zarez as a journal outside the trends, where design occupies a background role of functional support to content. However, while on the formal side the design is very restrained, conceptually it has played an exceptionally striking role in the new edition of the paper. Often, the designer works subversively, intervening, for example, in false commercials spread out through the paper rather than in the “real” content. In each issue, the designers have left the cover in charge of a different visual artist, as medium for acute social and political commentaries. Special contents of the paper (the topics and literary supplement, small zarez as it is called) have been additionally distinguished by the markedly creative interpretation of the contents.