Books on Books on Books:
Post-Digital Print Books, a media archaeological and design-led intervention
Format: Paper Publication composed of a written thesis accompanied by Visual experiments.
Published at: Design Academy Eindhoven
Year: 2025
Guidance: Hanna Rullman
Post-Digital Print Books, a media archaeological and design-led intervention
Format: Paper Publication composed of a written thesis accompanied by Visual experiments.
Published at: Design Academy Eindhoven
Year: 2025
Guidance: Hanna Rullman
This project honours the body of the book, creating a new rescepactle in visual and physical explorations, through a process that usually removes the build. The current focus of digitization initiatives is on content, propagating it while distorting and fragmenting the publication, where the digitized copy leaves the object of the book, the page leaves the binding, and loses its context. Fracturing and flattening, the digital book appears and vanishes while the physical publication remains as an actual, remembered space.
The encyclopaedia and the dictionary are books whose content has not lost its relevance, but to the modern reader, the format has lost its use. The publication at the outcome of this project works with processes of flattening and fracturing, treating manipulations as images within an essay. The separation and reconstruction of the scale, the page, the body and the spine play with the shadows left behind in the digitization process.
When a book’s content deserts it for the digital space, what does it mean for the shadow of its physical body?
