The Book: Ideas

I am still in the process of finishing the table while writing this. I try to understand and realise the basic concept behind the design of the book.

The whole year was an attempt to study different design disciplines and discover the interconnecting threats that they all have (should or shouldn't) with graphic design. Looking back at the process, from House X to the Underpass and the Table, I was trying to read the hidden information that was hidden behind and bring it forward.

It is part of my study to find intresting games of revealing information, communicating it by dis-communicating it, making it obvious but still discoverable. The Table managed to tell a story, House X celebrated itself and the Underpass will probably one day learn its own story from its users.

The book is trying to record all these processes and demonstrate the results of the experimentations that took place this whole year. How should it be laid out? In what form it should present all this information? How can it capture all the things that happened, the ideas that they were born and developed?

A book can be a lot of different things. It can be a monograph of a designer, a fashion-style catalogue of some work, a writing about the work, a fanzine, a series of individual pages. It can be all that and nothing together with hidden meanings, grids, layout, format.
Or it can be all revealed too. It can show itself how it was produced, what each page means, what are the relations between the images and the text, the images with the page, their position and grid methods. It can show and explain the process of its own creation, its story.

The book should be no different to anything else.
This book can be another attempt to reveal all the information hidden behind its glossy presentations of pictures and nicely formated text.