Thursday 24 October 2019

Layered - Contrast

Overlapping 

With the aim to portray the changing narrative and physical structure of a building/community that is being gentrified, this book will contain rough awkward paper (to represent the undesirable nature of the original building), and two duplex pieces of sand paper in the centre; the aim being that the sand paper will wear away at the paper, slowly revealing the original paper stock (building). The book will be bound with a bolt bind, which will make the rotating movement needed for the sand paper to scratch away at the other layers of the book.





The sand paper embossed finish on the different paper stocks came out clearly and presented the rough 'undesirable' brick building aesthetic I was looking for. The bolt bind allows for the embossed paper to be spun around the sand paper in the centre, slowly tear at the pages (deteriorating the other pages)


Literal (old to New)

The paper stock will vary depended on where it's placed from the outer to inner side, i.e. the outer page would replicate the window you view the house through, the inner would replicate the inner side of the house. The book could present the new and old building through the paper stock and the clinical placing of content in the 'new' book and more rugged in the 'old' book.







The embossing of the paper with sand paper, gave the book a physically more brick building type aesthetic. Their isn't a contrast of old an new in this mock up, but the contrast could be clearly made with a smoother paper stock for the cover of the book. 

The paper also came out crinkled after drying, will need to flatten pages as the crinkled texture takes away from sand paper emboss finish. 






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