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Max Perutz Labs Scientific Report

Editorial Design

Discoveries in biomedical research are journeys into an unknown, fascinating world down to the smallest units of life. The Max Perutz Labs Vienna are dedicated to basic research, asking new, unexpected questions and using their research to visualize fundamental mechanisms and new connections.

The Max Report 2020–2023 shows the dynamic development of the institute, the teams of researchers and their scientific successes. It provides an insight into their innovative research and working methods.

Opened Max Report with an interview with Alwin Köhler, photo and text on a double page

Opened Max Report with an interview, quote and blue, abstract illustrations on a double-page spread

Opened Max Report with an interview, and a blue, abstract, sprawling illustration on a double-page spread

Cover and back of the Max Report, filled with the sprawling blue and purple key visual as a background

The dynamic key visual

The disciplines of research and design are closely related. They are both driven by curiosity on their journey into uncharted territory. This similar way of their creative working methodology is the basic idea behind the visual experiment for the main visual. It builds up from the smallest “seed” to complex patterns and takes the reader on a journey through the dimensions. The organically growing visual is generatively developed with processing tools on the basis of different parameters to a variety of images throughout the report.

Stills structure the sections of the publication. They tell the story of the Max Perutz Labs’ mission: to explore and understand fascinating biological systems across all scales.

Animated scrolling through the pages in the Max Report gives an overview of the editorial design

Close-up of a page in Max Repot, with key visual and text in blue on a white background

Outreach & Reshaping

It’s not just the field of research at the Max Perutz Labs that has evolved continuously. We redesigned central areas of the research building on the Vienna BioCenter Campus – with a rooftop café, study lounges and a spacious new foyer. Together with the new travelling exhibition on the fascinating personality Max Perutz, these successful projects are documented in the report. The Vienna BioCenter map is also used as a handout for the onboarding of new team members.

Site map of the Max Perutz Labs in the Biocenter in blue and white for orientation, with integrated information about the institution

Double-page spread with a photo of the entrance behind the glass facade of Max Perutz Labs and a map of the building

Detail page about the traveling exhibition

Max Perutz Life

Finally, a last chapter gives an insight into the life of Max Perutz, his approach to research with the crowning Nobel Prize – an invitation to visit the travelling exhibition and learn more about the Max Perutz Labs.

Double-page spread on the life of Max Perutz, with photos and text in white on a blue background

In co-operation with Markos R. Kay (Key Visual)