10/22/2025
We’re thrilled to celebrate Shaheer Saif, co-recipient of this year’s RGD Student Award for Editorial Design! 🏆
The intended audience for this project includes anthropologists, art directors and graphic designers. The book embodies C. Nadia Seremetakis’s essay Memory of the Senses through material and visual form. The essay explores how sensory memory—such as the taste of a vanished Greek peach—carries cultural and historical weight. As global markets displace local foods and traditions, sensory experiences fragment, erasing connections between identity, memory and place. The Greek concept of nostalgia captures this embodied longing, turning sensory encounters into sites of resistance and continuity. To reflect these ideas, the book is printed on Kozuke White 44g Japanese paper, whose rough texture and translucency evoke memory’s ephemeral yet layered quality. ABC Synt, a monospaced typeface from Dinamo, was chosen for academic clarity and structural rigidity. Fully justified text within vertical rectangles mirrors fragmentation and convergence, while curated images and ornaments extend the essay’s themes of loss, preservation and cultural memory.
