Research

The black line

• Celebrates the hard work of swimmers.
• uses material the swimmers wear.
• hard work of swimmers shown through hard work reading the book.
• Movement of book used to see at specific angles to represent the blurring of eyesight when you are in the water.
• Professional looking.
• How the book is promoted (book was photographed on a float on water).

Slanted magazine

• focused on the description “Tokyo is more than just a well-run city. It unites cultural extremes: it is a city where the futuristic meets the traditional and tranquillity meets speed.”

Irma Boom

• ‘scent is so intense it isn’t visible’ translated into book form using embossing rather than print. Completely white throughout.
• A book is not a PDF, a book is an experience.

Elaine Ramos

• The book written by Melville uses his trademark phrase, “I prefer not to,” to inspire the design of the book that refuses to be read. 
• Ramos does this by stitching it shut, so that you have to pull/cut the thread to open it. 
• The pages inside are printed with a wall texture, and folded so that you cannot read the text inside. You have to cut open the folded pages, which you use the provided bookmark to do so.

Ori Studio

• Post is a book about photographer Soushi Tanaka’s series where he systematically collected images of each page of a newspaper using multiple exposures in order to demonstrate the behaviours behind production. 
• Ori Studios reflect this through the paper weight by subtly changing it with time as it becomes thicker toward larger increments. 
• They have removed the dates from the daily images and instead placed them upon a transparent plastic sheet which is bound directly above the images. By separating each image from its date, the studio assigns more importance to the photographs, making them the single point of focus.