Reading in the Unwritten – graduation project

With my graduation project, I took a closer look at the idea of mise-en-scène and Bresson’s statement who believed that we as designers or film directors, who work with art in a broad sense, should spur the audience to imagine. It’s us who encourage to fantasise rather than illustrate and serve a ready-made solution. At some point, I knew that a book would be my master project outcome. That being said I started investigating possible solutions for designing a book that leaves ample room for interpretation. That’s how the idea of a book written on margins emerged as a form where the plot is only a prompting, not the fundamental value. It came naturally to highlight margins, not the story, and to reverse the book hierarchy. Moreover, I decided to write my own novel to emphasize the personal aspect of the project. The story has been translated into three different forms (stage directions, novel, movie script) that were embodied in the book. Alongside the design came a short movie and voice over reading the novel, thus introducing the audience to the project.