RUFA Annual Report 2022

The volume, narrating and cataloging the best projects and activities carried out in 2022 at the Rome University of Fine Arts, is presented as a painted block with black edges and a cover adorned with silver marks and symbols. These decorative elements are drawn from details found within its pages — images, typographic elements, painterly lines of illustrations, and data visualizations. The content is approached from an analytical perspective, where photography, illustration, and typography serve as tools of investigation rather than storytelling, as means of exploration rather than discovery.

The layout and typographic composition, based on the exclusive use of the Sempione Grotesk font by Tipiblu for the C-a-s-t type foundry, take inspiration from the visual language of medical radiographs. The photographic project features key figures from classrooms and offices in a taxonomic style, employing synecdoche to capture their essence. Four-color illustrations and monochromatic infographics alternate between narrating qualitative data with a human-centered approach and rationally visualizing quantitative data. The interplay of diverse representational media, balanced by a selective use of colors and typographic elements, invites a slow and nuanced reading of the complexities of contemporary life within an academic and artistic context.