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ASAG Constitution Cover

The constitution cover spread in steel blue: the left two thirds carry a white wireframe drawing of a multi-storey building seen in steep perspective, its floors and mullions stacked so densely that the line work reads as texture, with a fainter tower skyline running along the foot of the page, while the right third is a flat panel carrying the association’s name ASAG in a thin geometric display face over the word CONSTITUTION in small spaced capitals, and a triangular mark built from one filled triangle and one open chevron sits in a darker square beside it.

The front and back covers of the Architecture Students Association of Ghana constitution, designed in 2009 as one spread: a white wireframe of a building drawn in steep perspective across the back cover and into the spine, and a flat blue panel carrying the association’s name and the word CONSTITUTION on the front.

The commission was a document cover rather than a poster or an identity, and the studio described the idea behind it in one line: “The idea is pretty simple something basic but architectural on first glance.” What they delivered is exactly that — a cover that reads as architecture before it reads as a publication, because the whole back of the spread is a structural wireframe.

The single published frame is the full cover, front and back together, on an 842 by 595 canvas — which is also the A4 landscape page size in PostScript points, the format a document cover is drawn in. The wireframe building runs across the back and into the middle of the spread, with a paler skyline along the foot, while the front is held as flat blue space carrying the ASAG wordmark in a thin geometric face, the word CONSTITUTION set beneath it in small spaced capitals, and a triangular device of one filled triangle and one open chevron in a darker square at the outer edge.

The client is named by the studio in the post itself — the Architecture Students Association of Ghana — which makes this one of the few entries from that first year of the blog with a stated client, a stated deliverable and a stated design intent, and no labels attached to the post at all.

Nothing on the cover is dated and no town is named, so the listing carries 2009 from the post alone and the bare Ghana the association works from. The studio published the cover on 20 February 2009, updating the post a week later, and asked readers to tell them what they thought.

The source post is on blogspot — the ASAG constitution cover, 20 February 2009.

The constitution cover spread in steel blue: the left two thirds carry a white wireframe drawing of a multi-storey building seen in steep perspective, its floors and mullions stacked so densely that the line work reads as texture, with a fainter tower skyline running along the foot of the page, while the right third is a flat panel carrying the association’s name ASAG in a thin geometric display face over the word CONSTITUTION in small spaced capitals, and a triangular mark built from one filled triangle and one open chevron sits in a darker square beside it.