Swiss studio Ilg/Trüb's cracking catalogue for recent art exhibition

To anyone interested in graphic design it’s no great revelation that Swiss duo Ilg/Trüb produce great work. But even by the pair’s own high standards, this catalogue for artist Shezad Dawood’s first ever solo show at The Parasol Unit in London is a real winner. Shezad works “across film, painting and sculpture to juxtapose discrete systems of image, language, site and historical narrative” and so neither he, nor this exhibition are immediately easy to engage with. And yet the catalogue draws me in from the off with its intriguing cover, while the big, confident use of imagery – there are 90 full colour photographs – seems to open up Shezad’s practice in front of my very eyes. The book has a personality and a sense of playfulness that doesn’t always go hand-in-hand with the contemporary art world.