BNU-MD-SVAD
A 99-page exhibition catalogue for Pakistan’s foremost
architecture exposition
A university milestone.
A student showcase.
One system for both.
The MA Art Education Annual Exhibition 2023 at BNU MDSVAD was not a student show in the informal sense. It was a graduate research exhibition attended by the Chairman of PHEC and the Vice Chancellor of BNU requiring collateral that communicated at institutional level across eight distinct formats simultaneously.
It also landed on BNU’s 20th anniversary. Two separate institutional occasions. One visual system. The brief was to carry both without either disappearing into the other.
The artworks set
the temperature.
The design followed.
The student thesis photographs fell into two distinct visual registers
without any prompting. Some were warm — organic, hand-made, body-
based, tactile. Others were cool — sculptural, calligraphic, material-
process, architectural. Forcing both groups into a single colour mood
would have flattened them into sameness. The dual register preserved
what made each piece of work distinct.
Eight formats, one system, no room for inconsistency. The rule was simple:
strict typographic structure, one accent bar per piece, student work as
the dominant image. When the rules are clear, composition follows. When
composition follows, chaos does not.
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