Travel Guide to Canada, Eh?
Folded Book Project
Humor| Current Social Event| Souvenir| Travel
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Everyone has the desire to travel, but most of us choose to stay home... So what? Why would you trouble yourself by travel somewhere when you can totally enjoy your peaceful little life in your wonderful tiny house? Well, here is the travel guide that will kill all your adventure spirit! |
Through this project, I experimented with several folding technics and typography as a way to express the lousiness of planning a trip. As a child I enjoyed the benefit of not need to worry about the housing, transportation, and money when travel. However, when it comes to my term to deal with all the details on planning the trip, everything gets tricky and there is no fun at all. With that in consideration, I challenged myself to present each section of the book with different technics. Not only to add the playfulness, but also the trouble that I have to go through in order to create this fun. interactive pieces. On the other hand, I decided to leave the trace of pencil marks as part of my final rendering of the book, as the trip itself is still an on going process. Not to mention, it resembles the afford and plan I've put into this product; thus, the book would not be complete without it.
At the end, the outlook of the guide is designed to represent a travel bag as it would be easy for readers to carry around. Perhaps, it is best to just grub a bag and go on to the adventure, enjoy all the troublesome processes and don't let it be discouraged. |
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Memoir of Gyotaku
Box Book Project
Poetry | Puzzle
memory/mem-uh-ree/n.(pl.-ies) 1 a romantic myth about fish. 2 that fish only have a seven-second memory span. 3 every lap is like seeing the world for the first time.
gyotaku/gyo-ta-ku/n. 1 impression of fish. 2 ancient art of printing fish as a way to record trophy catches prior to the modern day camera.
blink/blingk/vt. (-ing, -ed) 1 fish do not blink. 2 they do not close their eyes. 3 nor do they ever cry. 4 for they live in the water. 5 breath in tear.
record/ri-kawrd/vt.(-ing, -ed) 1 some fish record the smell of their childhood place on their way to ocean. 2 so they may return one day.
replay/ree-pley/vt.(-ing, -ied) 1 one follows the cycle of life, 2 repeats itself one after one. 3 the others stay in the same bowl. 4 never thought of getting out.
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Originally, the idea was really simple (I tried to control the level of complexity as the time given for this project is very limited) - it is a book about fish. But what are the fish about? I always have a strange personally attach to the fish, not just for their valuable nutrient, but of many romantic metaphor they are associated with.
One of the most favorable myth about fish is that they only obtain seven-seconds of memories. Though this saying is proved wrong scientifically, many still used it as a way to express the sorrow and/or loneliness they felt. With this project, I am intended to "document", or more specifically, to make the process of this seven-second-memory span tangible for my readers. |
As they follow the path of the page, flip and turn, they are going through the journal of a fish as well.
On top of that, each join contains a piece of paper with a clue, if placed in the correct orientation with the others, the solution will reveal itself. This additional interaction reflects to the saying of "puzzle the memories". Personally I believe that memory is an on-going process, no one can really "remember", nor be able to truly "forget". Which is why I choose video tape as my material for this project. Not only does it echo the metaphor of my motif, but the restriction of its shape also inspires me to cut my way out of the traditional square. With the infinite loop of memories, one ripple echoes another, and goes on. |