Hyperdocz.
YEAR / 2022
BRIEF
This explores graphic design as a multidisciplinary process and sits within the context of experimental publishing. Experimental publishing explores publishing formats in the post-digital, networked age. You are asked to familiarize yourself with experimental publishing projects and create a hyper-doc that re-imagines digitized archival material. In experimental publishing proposes we reimagine books not as linear, bound, and fixed, but as fluid, remixed, networked spaces. This project enables you to explore physical and digital processes through hands-on experimentation and play. You are required to create a twelve-page interactive pdf, hyperlinked to material housed elsewhere.
RESPONSE
After extensively exploring and ideating around archival visual and written material, I developed a narrative that created a context for the Hyperdoc: the experience of expecting an asteroid to hit Earth. The nostalgic nature of this experience motivated the experimentation with 35mm film photography, aiming to capture the melancholy and anxious atmosphere associated with impending apocalypse. The outcomes were then merged with lino and stencil printing, paper engineering, experimental type, and digital collage in a document celebrating physical and digital graphic design processes. The document also includes AR, and hyperlinks to short films involving projection and textural experimentation with objects. Although the outcome of this brief is a digital document, it is designed to also be suitable for printing and create the same narrative and experience.
Download the Artivive app, then hold your camera over the image on the left to experience the narrative through augmented reality.
Click here or on the images to view The Great Drama: a short film capturing the projection of carousel slides containing collages done with original 35mm film photographs, lino and stencil prints.
