The project was a response to a brief set by The International Society of Typographic Designers to create a typographic project on the theme of “everything about one thing.”
My response to this brief discussed the theme of “Bit-Rot” aka Data Decay with the starting point focussing on the obscelesence of floppy disks.
Bit-Rot is something most people aren't aware of, but in a digital age this is a really interesting topic, as most people don't realise the how unstable digital media is as a format for storing information.
“You can read a book that's 200 years old, but you can't read a computer file that was created 5 years ago”
The format is based on the dimensions of the 8-inch floppy disk with the main body copy from the short story “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luís Borges; a short story about a library which contains every story ever written and that ever will be written and how this is stored.
I illustrated the book by corrupting it and its based on research of how corrupted files appear.