For her research fellowship with the CBCP, Berta Ferrer will explore printed collage as a technique (in both text and image). Drawing attention to a design process embedded in the authorial process and the construction of both materiality and narrative, the main objective of the research is to identify and analyse examples that use collage as a technique for unconventional (experimental) narrative in literature art and graphic design.
Berta Ferrer is Architect of Books (Arquitecta de libros), an expert in unconventional narratives and in books that foreground their materiality. Holding a Ph.D. in Typography and Graphic Communication from the University of Reading, as well as MAs in Graphic Design and Architecture, she specializes as a graphic designer, researcher, lecturer and writer in book and editorial design. Her creative and scholarly work delves into the potential of the book as a physical object in the digital age. She currently is Programme Leader at the BA in Graphic Design & Digital Media at LABA Valencia in Spain, and also teaches the BA in Graphic Communication and the MA in Communication Design at the University of Reading in the UK. Additionally, she conducts international workshops and seminars on book design that encourage rethinking traditional reading practices and the material aspects of the book.
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