Book by HSE Arts and Design School Wins Award

'Cast-iron Logic of Russia', a book prepared by staff and students of the HSE Arts and Design School, has won the national award in the ‘Best Books and Publishers of the Year’ competition.

Cast-iron Logic of Russia, a book prepared by staff and students of the HSE Arts and Design School, has won the national award in the ‘Best Books and Publishers of the Year’ competition.

The book Cast-iron Logic of Russiawas prepared for the anniversary of the United Metallurgical Company (OMK). The book is about Russian metallurgy, its role in Russian history, science, culture and art. It is a colourful historical and journalistic review illustrated with hundreds of rare photos, documents, and paintings. Two and a half centuries of Russian metallurgical history are covered in its 324 pages, 510 chapters, and 1035 illustrations.

All the publishing processes, including layout design, composition, search for and creation of illustrations, license coordination and prepress, were carried out by the staff of the Arts and Design School Publishing House (HSE Design Lab) together with students from the HSE Arts and Design School. The book won the national award in the ‘Encyclopedias’ category. The awards ceremony will take place on March 1 at the Russian State Library.

Mikhail Nisenbaum, editor-in-chief at the Arts and Design School Publishing House said: ‘Such huge projects are a challenge for the Art and Design School. We are extremely proud that we’ve been able to create a new panorama of our history and put it in the form of a book. We are also proud to have worked together with the United Metallurgical Company, one of the Russia’s industrial leaders. Cast-iron Logic of Russiais a great example of cooperation between a progressive business entity, social policy, and art. Congratulations to the Art and Design School team and our wonderful partners!’

‘We were very happy that our ambitions to create the best possible corporate gift book coincided with the interests of the United Metallurgical Company’, said Natalia Logutova, Deputy Head of the HSE Art and Design School, sharing her thoughts on the project, ‘This work, aimed at restoring the links between the history of metallurgy and the history of Russia, carried out by the editing team together with the company staff and the staff of industrial museums, as well as the commissioner’s belief in our choice of the layout provided a result which we believe to be an overwhelming success. We are also happy that the professional community clearly values our work’.

The HSE Arts and Design School Publishing House develops concepts and ready-to-print layouts, as well as carrying out research, search, editing, making up, prepress preparation, and support at the printing house. The Publishing House employs renowned professionals in publishing, participants of international exhibitions, award winners, creators of outstanding books and book series, together with senior students of the School.

The ‘Best Books and Publishers of the Year’ award was established in 2000 by the Russian Biographical Institute, the Russian State Library, Literaturnaya Gazeta, and Orden Educational Society.