IN OTHER WORDS / BOOK DESIGN
OVERVIEW
This book is about reading and re-membering. About re-mixing and re-composing, discourse, personal stories, and meaning-making. And it’s about re-constructing the invisible picture through text and image.
The journey of a designer’s self-understanding and territories of responsibility have widened in recent decades to include and address questions of authorship, meaning at the intersection of language, art, design, and theory, as well as organizing, writing, and curating bodies of text.
It is the place of art and design that allow us to dig deeper into the roots of who we are.
I’ve always struggled finding the right words to explain myself, but maybe there aren’t any. Maybe the most important words are the ones left unsaid.
All of these—my—words are by definition, limited. They are subjective, situated in time and space, in this particular body with its own particular slippery history.
This story that I tell is slippery and fluid, like the insides of our bodies. Language is slippery and words create worlds.
I speak through a choir of influence. I embrace phrases, make use of expressions, erase false ideas and replace them with right ones. Inside are the books that have transformed my Being-in-the-world.
Books are like brief doorways into the worlds of others. This book is a re-mix and re-composition of texts which have changed my perspectival unfolding.
“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.” —Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
This book is really an invitation to come think with me. Go slow instead of rushing to understand. Pay close attention to the things that confuse you. What does it mean when a text is legible vs opaque? What is being revealed or concealed? Text often has an illusion of comprehensiveness.
In Other Words, you are the co-creator of this story. The main protagonist. Our stories create our reality.
This book is about reading and re-membering. About re-mixing and re-composing, discourse, personal stories, and meaning-making. And it’s about re-constructing the invisible picture through text and image.
The journey of a designer’s self-understanding and territories of responsibility have widened in recent decades to include and address questions of authorship, meaning at the intersection of language, art, design, and theory, as well as organizing, writing, and curating bodies of text.
It is the place of art and design that allow us to dig deeper into the roots of who we are.
I’ve always struggled finding the right words to explain myself, but maybe there aren’t any. Maybe the most important words are the ones left unsaid.
All of these—my—words are by definition, limited. They are subjective, situated in time and space, in this particular body with its own particular slippery history.
This story that I tell is slippery and fluid, like the insides of our bodies. Language is slippery and words create worlds.
I speak through a choir of influence. I embrace phrases, make use of expressions, erase false ideas and replace them with right ones. Inside are the books that have transformed my Being-in-the-world.
Books are like brief doorways into the worlds of others. This book is a re-mix and re-composition of texts which have changed my perspectival unfolding.
“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.” —Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
This book is really an invitation to come think with me. Go slow instead of rushing to understand. Pay close attention to the things that confuse you. What does it mean when a text is legible vs opaque? What is being revealed or concealed? Text often has an illusion of comprehensiveness.
In Other Words, you are the co-creator of this story. The main protagonist. Our stories create our reality.
SERVICES
Creative Direction
Print Design
Type Design
Kettle Stitch Binding
Creative Direction
Print Design
Type Design
Kettle Stitch Binding
YEAR
2022-2023
2022-2023
University of Toronto professor John Vervaeke, right. Colin Lawrence, left. Pictured at OCAD University, Grad Ex 2023
