Print is dead - Long live print

  • Tim Woolliscroft
Brief was to show print descending into digital, but in a way that could only be accomplished using print, to show that print has to live on. I used lord of the flies as a metaphor. The design embodies the boys descent into savagery as it happens during the story. This in turn represents prints descent into digital. The inner pages represent the safety, and innocence of society, the outer pages represent savagery on the fringes of society. Several typographic elements have been changed in this book. As the reader progresses, some of their words begin to spill onto the outer pages, this builds up and shows the characters descending into chaos The typeface also changes gradually throughout the book, to begin with, the typeface is set in ‘Garamond’. As the book progresses the vowels gradually transform, this represents the boys in the group who split away from the rest to become savages. There is also a significant splitting point in the book. This is represented in the form of a swap from single column to double column.