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Type Workshop 30/01/18

DEWEY*

*and other methods of categorising books

This project was an exploration of identity through the curation of books. After analysing my own bookcase, and how I organise my books within it, I collected photographs of other people’s bookcases and essays discussing how and why we organise our books the way that we do.

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how to judge a book; reading without punctuation || April 2018

Following on from the replacement of punctuation with typographic processes, I took the text from a traditional book format, to a more unconventional roll of print. The whole piece measures 1.46m wide (the width of the longest sentence) and 17.02m long (the length of the whole text).

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how to judge a book; alternative reading || April 2018

I propose a new methodology of reading: instead of left-to-right, top-to-bottom, from the first page to the last, the reader would read the first line of every page before going back to the first page and reading the second line. I rewrote Course of General Linguistics and introduced ‘line numbers’ as a page number replacement. The spine of the book features the numbers 1 to 27 - the number of lines in the text, and the end pages feature these numbers 70 times each, as there are 70 pages in total.

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how to judge a book; reading without punctuation || May 2018

Using Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics, I removed all punctuation and replaced it with typographic processes, so that when read it would have the same effect on the reader as if the punctuation was there. These typographic processes are based on my own voice intonations when reading. The spine title and cover is the order of punctuation as it appears on the first page of the text, and the end pages feature a print of all the featured punctuation, in order, of the whole text.

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anthology/anthropology; part two || May 2018

After researching the concept of the ‘Personal Library’ - where each of us have our own bibliography, questions arose: how do we select books? How often are our choices determined by preconceived schema?2 I created a book which is both an anthology of anthropologies, and an anthropology of anthologies. It is a curation of interviews I have conducted, asking people about their books and their reading habits. Between each interview features cut-out inserts of their bookcase.

2 Emilio Fantin, ‘The Art of Conversation and the Aesthetic of the Process’, in Slow Reading by Ana Paula Pais and Carolyn F. Strauss, pp. 74-5

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anthology/anthropology; part one || December 2017

After researching the concept of the ‘Personal Library’ - where each of us have our own bibliography, questions arose: how do we select books? How often are our choices determined by preconceived schema?2 I created a book which is both an anthology of anthropologies, and an anthropology of anthologies. It is a curation of interviews I have conducted, asking people about their books and their reading habits. Between each interview features cut-out inserts of their bookcase.

2 Emilio Fantin, ‘The Art of Conversation and the Aesthetic of the Process’, in Slow Reading by Ana Paula Pais and Carolyn F. Strauss, pp. 74-5

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how to judge a book; to punctuate: genre analysis || December 2017

The intent of this project was to offer an alternative method of analysing writing. I took a deconstructionist approach; a concept introduced by Jacques Derrida which attempted to ‘uncover the meaning of a literary work by studying the way its form and content communicate essential humanistic messages’1. I compiled a series of prints which feature all the punctuation used in books of differing genres, so that the viewer could analyse how one genre differs from another.

1 Ellen Lupton, Deconstruction and Graphic Design: History Meets Theory, Typotheque [29.11.04]

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LOOPPOOL || September 2017

Rotoscope animation based on video footage of our group dancing. The audio track Déjà Vu was made by creating black out poetry out of Peter Thompson and Slavoj Žižek’s book The Privatisation of Hope: Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia, and running these lines through Typatone, which converted this into sound to be overlaid onto an existing track.

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Visual Essay Project || February 2017

Post-

a prefix, meaning “behind,” “after,” “later,” “subsequent to,” “posterior to,” occurring originally in loanwords from Latin ( postscript), but now used freely in the formation of compound words ( post-Elizabethan; postfix; postgraduate; postorbital). Memory is one of the most important ways by which our histories animate our current actions and experiences. We remember experiences and events which really happened, so memory is unlike pure imagination. Yet, in practice, there can be close interactions between remembering, perceiving, and imagining. It is essential for much reasoning and decision-making, both individual and collective. It is connected in obscure ways with dreaming. Some memories are shaped by language, others by imagery. Much of our moral and social life depends on the peculiar ways in which we are embedded in time. Memory goes wrong in mundane and minor, or in dramatic and disastrous ways.

For this brief I chose the prefix ‘post-’ to base my visual essay on. I decided to focus on memory as an extension of ‘post-event’, with a focus on how memories can be distorted or changed over time. I found wold family photos and I wrote down everything I remembered from the time the photo was taken, and I then interviewed my sister about the same photos and asked her what she remembered about them. Comparing our responses, I was interested in finding how each of us remembered slightly different things despite us both being there in that moment in time. To communicate this concept of altered images I distorted each photo using various methods, and accompanied each photo with a transcript of the recorded conversation.

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Pop-up Museum || January 2017

For the Pop-up Museum brief I wanted to create a virtual reality experience which displayed and informed visitors about Fata Morganas, an optical illusion found in polar, desert, and oceanic landscapes. I designed an app-mock up where the user would have three virtual reality landscapes to choose from; and I created an illustrated virtual reality experience in a polar landscape, where informative text accompanied the illusions.

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Book Project || January 2017

For the book project I decided to base my book on the theme of conflict, specifically the conflict between ethics and aesthetics when it comes to material choice. The book I created contained two spines with two different paper stocks (chemically made, printer paper, and ethically sourced, recycled paper made under fairtrade industry principles) which ‘fought’ as you flipped through the book, each side moving to and from the middle. I also decided to use an ‘inbetween’ paper for the cover, which was ethically sourced but made from cotton pulp which is very industry intensive.

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