OverProtection
Pratt Grad CommD - Fall 2024
Visual Language - Prof.Gerardo Madreda.
This project explores the theme of "tsundoku" - a Japanese word that literally means "to pile up reading material" and refers to the act of acquiring books but letting them accumulate without reading them; also trying our best not to spoil them.
Questions that came up while working on iterations for the same were on the lines of not using things and objects because you wouldn’t like to spoil them or just getting it because you like how it looks. The first iteration ended with a question - “did i spoil it while trying to protect it?”.
The text on the book reads - " This is the Dirty magazine. It’s not dirty it’s clean. It might be dirty, I don’t know, haven’t read it. I brought it because it looked cool, maybe you should judge a book by it’s cover. This was not the cover though, that’s laminated and kept safely. This looks like the mark on Potter’s forehead, maybe this book will survive. Nothing will spoil this book now, the mark wasn’t placed intentionally. It looks like the heat from the vaccume forming probabily ruined the things printed on the cover, if so that would look dirty if I take it off. Did I spoil it while trying to protect it?"