UNDESIGNED SELF-PUBLICATION | ‘69
This was an “undesigned” publication project that required the disposal of all design knowledge to just create content for the sake of it. I’ve decided on using the year, 1969 as a source for content to ultimately roll the year out, since it was such an eventful year. It also has clear references to aesthetics which I could’ve deliberately contradict with an opposite design approach.
The content is laid out in envelope-like folded pages and postcards as the “section” pages of this book. The idea behind this was to evoke the sense of teleporting oneself to another era and place like a letter does. I also utilized collage as a technique, due to the intertextual content. The publication itself contains various touchpoints that make up for an interactive experience that requires the reader to use these to read through the copy.
The different events and figures are divided with postcard-like tear-off pages. The pages between these tear-off pages are folded similar to that of an envelope.
The postcard tear-off pages are metallic stickers to contradict the classic 60's colour palette. It also utilizes collage as a medium, since it's ideal for the intertextual content. A filter consisting of the significant neon colours are placed on the collage elements to create some sort of consistency within the chaotic layout. Most of the postcard designs also overlap and interact to create different images with each other and are covered with stamp marks appropriate to the specific dates' events and figures.
The postcards are torn off and pasted on the appropriate sections as one reads through the publication.
The flaps are used to indicate the content inside the envelope and the order in which to open it. There is an indicated spot for the torn-off postcard to be pasted that also provide the date and time relevant to the envelope's content.
Small blocks of transparent paper with black strips are inside the envelope. It should placed over the blocks of body copy to make the reading content less for the eye through hiding the less important information.
The envelope’s flaps are pasted together with a small folded note that consist of a quote from figures during the 60’s.
